Critical Thinking in Real Life

There was at least one time that I can remember when I stood my ground regardless of losing my friends. One of my friends was being bullied by some of my other friends and I stood up for her. I used critical thinking skills by first recognizing the issue. I knew it was wrong to bully people so I knew I had to do something to help. Some other critical thinking skills I used was Rhetoric, I used this because I tried to persuade them that what they were doing was wrong and that they would not like it if somebody was doing the same thing to them.  I also used analogical premise to try to show them how it would feel if somebody was doing the same things to them and how they would not like it. If I had not used critical thinking skills I would probably had allowed them to continue bullying other people because I would not have known how to get my point across or how to illustrate that they were causing a problem to others.