Saturday, 9 April 2011

Fallacies of Prejudicial Language - Loaded Question

This is a personal experience that I have faced in my work place regarding the suitable payment that we should wage our talents for an animation that we have been working on. 
As the sound engineer I personally felt that a number of the talents deserved to be given a higher payment as they have performed really well in their delegated tasks. 
Considering that, I have proposed to a colleague of mine who is my producer that we should increase the payments for the said talents as we were given an ample of fund to run the production. However, the producer blatantly denied my proposal without even consulting my boss she asked me a question which I felt was a fallacious argument using the fallacies of prejudicial language armed with a loaded question that made me agreed to her decision. 
“Would you want the boss to feel that you are wasting the company’s money by maximizing the talents’ payment?” 
After going through the types of fallacious debates that we have. I personally felt that during that particular moment I was being conned into assuming that what she said was indeed true. 
Instead of agreeing and believing that what she said was true, I should have instead inquired if minimizing the talents’ payment has been a normal practice which has been approved and well-liked by the boss and organization.

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