The Masters Trap

[sanantone]

Those who don't understand or comprehend how people end up in serious debt for their education should really hope you never have anything horrible happen in your life.

What does a woman with 5 children do when their 45 father dies of a heart attack? She went back to school to get her master's. Yup her family lived on student loans. The life insurance didn't go very far as she was trying to keep their house.

What a woman whose husband is abusing her and she finally gets the courage to leave and start a better life for her 3 kids? Yup. She too lived on student loans so she could put a roof over her kids head and food in their bellies.

What about a woman who has been self employed for years who all of a sudden is dying and gives up everything to spend 2 years focusing on her health so she can beat a blood disorder that was slowly killer her? She's now in grad school on student loans. She owes tens of thousands from closing her business suddenly.

These 3 women are REAL people I know. I'm the third one! You never know what will happen in life. I certainly didn't expect to end up in the ER twice in 2 days being told I was dying and my body was shutting down. I never imagined I would have permanent brain damage from this whole ordeal either, but I do. Life throws people curveballs all the time. Better hope you're never hit with one up in your ivory towers.

Sigh. This is not your average master's student at University of Chicago. This is a commonly seen student at non-traditional schools, though. 

This explains the Appeal to Emotion and Ad Hominem fallacies and personal attacks. These are tactics people use when they can't make a logical, factual argument. 

https://web.archive.org/web/201410180148...otion.html