I have a propensity to be rather crass concerning items which to me seem to be both blatant and of themselves, stupid.
Psychology is only one of them, I am sorry to say.
Of all the classes that I have taken in this fine year, and I have enjoyed many of them, Psychology is by far the utmost revolting to me.
The offense this time around,
A stage in development, as noted by textbook, that we all must go through to be characterized as adults,
"Postformal thought: recognition that truth may vary from situation to situation...that ambiguity and contradiction are the rule rather than the exception, and that emotion and subjective factors must begin to play a role in thinking and formulating truth."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The first two phrases follow the stream of most of the technical jargon the book is bursting with.
The last one, however, screamed at me.
Literally(not really literally) SCREAMED at me.
Thoughts of hunting down the books authors and demanding an answer to the atrocity began to possess my mind.
It was rather fortunate for all parties concerned, then, that I did not take this course of action, and instead decided to refute the silly claim, as what it is, stupid, right here, right now.
First of all, it is quite a loaded claim if you disagree with it.
Here, I mean that you either lose by falling into the rationalist's trap, coming to their conclusions, or you lose because clearly, if you do not experience this stage, you do not think like a sophisticated adult.
Au contraire, fortunately for the more logical of us, this is simply not the case.
Determining outcomes and coming to conclusions using emotion and subjective factors is both fallacious and stupid.
Though I would love to expound upon this, I have already spent hours composing a rather concise post
concerning this very issue, namely, the role of feelings in determining truth.
Nota bene part three. 
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