15+ Situations like: “Can you see the logic? Me neither, but it must be in there somewhere.”

The ability to reconcile logic, objectivity and emotions is generally known by the term “emotional intelligence”. This would be one of the main unique characteristics of the human being. Even the physicist Stephen Hawking said that the main and most difficult goal of modern robots is to assimilate human logic in such a way that ordinary people do not realize that they are communicating with a machine. While artificial intelligences are already capable of reproducing traces of human logic, they still do not know how to defend arguments “without head or tails” with complete security — something that many humans have mastered for a long time.

We, from awesome.club, we had a good laugh at some people’s strange and confusing logic, which could only be understood better with a microscope and a very creative mind. We therefore decided to share them with you. Check out!

HR email:
— Could you take a vacation between the 10th and the 31st of October?
— I can’t take a vacation now, I have an important task to finish and I can’t delegate it to anyone, because the deadline is too short.
“But you can sign the documents and keep working.
“So I can use those days to take New Year’s off?”
— No, because you will be on vacation in October. © lalaka94 / pikabu

During the three years I was with my husband, he always had a beard. Two days ago he decided to test a look new and shaved it off. When I got home, I didn’t have any surprise reaction and just kissed him. He got upset. All because he looked like a totally different person, and I just kissed him. Meaning I was willing to kiss any other man. What do they even say about female logic?! © Палата № 6 / vk

We don’t have a lot of money. We found out that we would need to buy a new water heater. I researched the values ​​and saw that it would come out for about 300 dollars. Luckily, there was a sale in the store and they lowered the price to 200. After buying it, we would have 100 dollars left over, right? Why not use that money for dinner at a nice restaurant? Well, that was my logic, but for some reason my wife didn’t agree. © Pierre Cardone / quora

We hired a new driver. I spent the day driving, with him by my side, showing him the points of sale, the employees and explaining how everything worked. The boy kept talking and “boasting” about his old job:
— Oh, I worked at a company where we could do whatever we wanted, nobody controlled anything. We took the vehicles for free, most days. No need to change parts or anything. Very different from your company…
“And why did you leave there?”
– The company went bankrupt. © ProVizorUA / pikabu

Child: “When I grow up, I’m going to marry Mommy.”
Mother: “It’s not right, son, because we can’t marry people from our own family.”
The thoughtful child: “Then how did you marry Daddy?” © huazzy / reddit

Men like to mock women’s logic by saying they don’t understand it, but theirs can be very confusing too. My husband had some cassette tapes from the old days, but he wanted to throw them in the trash, saying that no one would listen to those old songs anymore. “I will,” I pronounced. I spent the day listening to great music from the disco days and, out of habit, left the tapes in the recorder so I didn’t have to open and close it all the time. However, when my husband saw that I was leaving them in the device, he complained: “You can’t leave them there for too long, they will demagnetize”. I asked him why he cared if they were going to “degauss” since he wanted to throw them in the trash. He just replied: “And what does that have to do with it?” © vare4ka70 / livejournal

At our company, a truck driver completed all his mandatory shifts, worked an extra day and received a salary of two thousand reais. Another colleague also worked all shifts, seven extra shifts and received the same salary. Evidently, the latter did not understand what happened and went to talk to our boss: “How could I have worked six more shifts and been paid the same amount?” “Your hours were counted correctly, you just didn’t receive your monthly bonus, that is, your salary was actually higher than normal”, explained the director. No one ever took extra shifts at work again. © blackjack87 / pikabu

My little niece said she could count to 10 and started counting from zero.
Me: “Okay, but can you count backwards?”
She: “Okay”, turned her back to me and started counting. © wlane13 / reddit

“My kindergarten photo. My mother asked why I didn’t want to smile for the photo and I replied that I was ashamed. The logic of a five-year-old child”.

I was pretty sure that unicorns were fictional creatures and, by association, so were princes and princesses. After all, they’re all from fairy tales, aren’t they? To me, it made sense. During a history class, the teacher was talking about kings, and I got up and asked if kings had children. He replied yes: princes and princesses. I filled my mouth proudly and told him he shouldn’t make up lies, as those were imaginary characters. Minutes later, the penny dropped… and I spent the rest of the day in silence. © mehb***h / reddit

I was upset with my brother… for being upset with me. An hour later, he came up and said: “Look, I’m only 14 years old, but it seems to me that I already understood all the female logic. Can you explain to me how I should apologize? If I offended you, could you forgive me?” We need to teach them from a young age. © Палата № 6 / vk

My wife is a teacher at a rural technical college. For the past week, she has spent two to three hours locked in her room teaching classes via Skype and always ends up tired. I asked:
— What do you teach there so much?
— Basic banking knowledge. We received a special request to run a professional course on finance for 20 people.
— How many of your students will work in a bank after their classes, considering that there is only one small bank in our town?
“Probably none of them.” Why are you bothering me?! What’s the difference?! What matters is that I’m getting paid. © Volkovodec / pikabu

The fallacy of the argument, supposedly logical, “but that’s a matter of common sense”. People who say this are saying something like this: “I don’t know much about the subject, but I do have an opinion on the subject. It seems obvious to me, but since I have no arguments to defend my point of view, I demand that it be obvious to everyone.” It’s a lazy speech tactic. © Dan Holliday/quora

When I was in school, we had a terrible math book. In principle, the methodology of this material was important not only for learning numbers, but also for developing logical thinking. At the end of each unit, we had to solve a riddle, which was usually unrelated to the subject. We were once asked the following riddle: “What do elephants have that other animals don’t?” In your guess, what was the answer? Ears? Trunk? No, BABY ELEPHANTS! How would the kids guess that?! © Палата № 6 / vk Although it was another failed hypothesis, my logic was quite “special”. I was sure that if I covered my ears with my fingers, all the people around me would also stop hearing the sounds. If I don’t hear anything, the others must not hear it either, right? Well, we were at school and, while the teacher was explaining the material, I decided to test my new ability to “remove ambient sounds”. I covered my ears, filled my lungs with air and screamed as loud as I could. You understand what happened, don’t you? Everyone looked at me scared, and the boy next to me must be traumatized to this day. © ImJustAnotherMartian / reddit

Could you add to our list any other examples of “doubtful logic” that you may have noticed? Comment!