HegemonKhan
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emotion vs reason
emotion vs reason
i have long "worshipped" and "glorified" reason. but than one day i had an apitheny:
with reason u can justify or explain anything. even the holocaust or darfur or murder or bush jr. 's (~2000-2009) IRAQ WAR or whatever vileness. anyone can do it if they try. you'll find a way to reason why it was neccessary or a good thing to do.
this greatly terrifies me, since it's so true.
reason allows u to give credit or value or goodness to the most uncreditable or most evil actions of man.
with reason, u can explain and justify the unexplainable and unjustifiably.
with reason, u can make evil be good.
than there's the matter of WHO'S REASON ?? my reason? your reason? his reason? her reason? their reason? our reason? we each have our own reason. my reason is different than your reason.
my conclusion:
reason is EVIL
now,
let's take a look at emotion:
sure, emotion can be faked.
but, real genuine emotion, is it to be ignored and regarded as unmeaningful ?
absolutely not !
first where does emotion come from ?
if/when u hear about an adult male raping a lil girl do u have the instant gut-feeling that it is wrong ? or some other thing that u find awful ?
why do u feel its wrong ?
i say, that this magical emotion, this magical gut feeling, this feeling of wrong, is the closest we can ever get to real truth. there's no reason or logic. it's just something magical. it's unexplainible. and when it is genuine and not faked, emotion is truth. reason is false.
emotion is not madness or insanity. true emotions, people being emotional, is truth. when some one is upset or angry it's ligitmate. when some one "feels" or has a "gut-feeling" it's legimate.
we don't know why people get the "gut-feeling" of wrong when using the example of adult male raping a lil girl, but we do, it comes from some where, but it doesnt come from reason, it comes from an absolute truth. we just know it.
now, i take emotional-panicky people seriously as they have more ligitimacy than the calmest most logical reasoning person.
the calmest most logical reasoning people scare me as they can justify and explain any action, no matter how inhumane it is.
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do NOT get me wrong though, emotions has it's own problems and many of them are the same problems as reason has.
for example:
for/to me, i feel pete rose should/is a hall of fame baseball player
others, may feel he's the "scum of the earth"
emotions differ just like reasons do from person to person.
but emotions has merit, reasons don't because of what i mentioned already.
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for me:
emotion > reason
emotion wins over reason
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agree or disagree ?
which do u take more seriously?
emotion or reason ?
emotional-disturbed-panicky person or a calm-rational-logical-reasonable person ?
emotion vs reason
i have long "worshipped" and "glorified" reason. but than one day i had an apitheny:
with reason u can justify or explain anything. even the holocaust or darfur or murder or bush jr. 's (~2000-2009) IRAQ WAR or whatever vileness. anyone can do it if they try. you'll find a way to reason why it was neccessary or a good thing to do.
this greatly terrifies me, since it's so true.
reason allows u to give credit or value or goodness to the most uncreditable or most evil actions of man.
with reason, u can explain and justify the unexplainable and unjustifiably.
with reason, u can make evil be good.
than there's the matter of WHO'S REASON ?? my reason? your reason? his reason? her reason? their reason? our reason? we each have our own reason. my reason is different than your reason.
my conclusion:
reason is EVIL
now,
let's take a look at emotion:
sure, emotion can be faked.
but, real genuine emotion, is it to be ignored and regarded as unmeaningful ?
absolutely not !
first where does emotion come from ?
if/when u hear about an adult male raping a lil girl do u have the instant gut-feeling that it is wrong ? or some other thing that u find awful ?
why do u feel its wrong ?
i say, that this magical emotion, this magical gut feeling, this feeling of wrong, is the closest we can ever get to real truth. there's no reason or logic. it's just something magical. it's unexplainible. and when it is genuine and not faked, emotion is truth. reason is false.
emotion is not madness or insanity. true emotions, people being emotional, is truth. when some one is upset or angry it's ligitmate. when some one "feels" or has a "gut-feeling" it's legimate.
we don't know why people get the "gut-feeling" of wrong when using the example of adult male raping a lil girl, but we do, it comes from some where, but it doesnt come from reason, it comes from an absolute truth. we just know it.
now, i take emotional-panicky people seriously as they have more ligitimacy than the calmest most logical reasoning person.
the calmest most logical reasoning people scare me as they can justify and explain any action, no matter how inhumane it is.
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do NOT get me wrong though, emotions has it's own problems and many of them are the same problems as reason has.
for example:
for/to me, i feel pete rose should/is a hall of fame baseball player
others, may feel he's the "scum of the earth"
emotions differ just like reasons do from person to person.
but emotions has merit, reasons don't because of what i mentioned already.
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for me:
emotion > reason
emotion wins over reason
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agree or disagree ?
which do u take more seriously?
emotion or reason ?
emotional-disturbed-panicky person or a calm-rational-logical-reasonable person ?
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