How Logic can improve the world

The plan that I believe would have the most wide reaching impact on the world is to encourage and emphasize logical thinking.
What: Logical thinking. This is the idea of understanding what logic thinking actually is (and includes things like knowing what fallacies are.) and what it is not. (Being emotionless, unable to make quick decisions etc...)  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawVulcan (note these are examples of ways people portray logic as being false. While many of the descriptors may be from movies and films which everyone knows aren't true they are still representative of mass culture and ideals.)

How: Simply by teaching it in the classroom as a requirement.
Why?: They are many reasons why logic is necessary

1. It improves people's ability to understand when someone is trying to manipulate them. Many groups, including everything from advertisements to politicians use fallacies in their attempts to convince people of a choice of action they support.  By making people understand what arguments are fallacies it would prevent them from being as easy to manipulate.

2. It can encourage people to act nicer. While it is unlikely that people will stop making decisions based purely on emotion by encouraging logical thinking it would make it difficult for someone to make a decision that isn't logical. And this is most important to prevent negative acts. Most positive acts can be argued logically (if you are improving someones life and it does not or has little damage to you that is a logical thing even if you were driven to do it by emotions.) However negative acts are much harder to argue logically (hurting someone for no reason or your own pleasure isn't logical. It just increases the odds that you will be hurt in response and could escalate dangerously). By encouraging logical thinking it might cause people to act more kindly.

3.  It would reduce the power of prejudice. If you act more based on logic and reasons it stands out when you are making judgement or treating someone negatively simply from personal dislike of certain characteristics of them.  Not that this will get rid of prejudice. But it will encourage people to be less likely to do negative acts out of prejudice, which is more important.

4. It improves scientific and mathematical education. Logic is a very scientific way to view the world. it has it's rules and structures and requires evidence to work properly. By encouraging and valuing this way of thinking it will lead more students becoming our next scientists and mathematicians  who have the best chance of dramatically changing the world perhaps into a Utopia. Science has had the greatest impact on mankind and has done amazing things for us.


Conclusion:
Logic isn't the only way to improve the world. Others have varied solutions. Many of these might very well be effective. But all will take use of part of this plan. All will be tested to see if they make sense. If they are consistent. If they are Logical. Logic is necessary for deciding an action by acting by pure random chance. And if pure chance could lead us to Utopia it most likely would've already done so.The best way to take an action that will have a positive impact on the world will be to use logical to determine what that action will be.

links:
http://www.startrek.com/legacy_media/images/200307/spock01/320x240.jpg
http://www.electrogent.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/argument_fallacies.jpg
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