Poll: Emotions and such.

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WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT

 

[Sunrider]

Of course not, what does that even mean? I'm not sure you've given credit to quite how much emotions control our lives. I mean, "calm" is an emotion. Even being reasonable is an emotional thing, since there'd be no drive to do so unless you felt like it was the right choice.

And while we're arguing, acting according to our emotions is reasonable. An emotional reward is no less real than a physical one of equal value. The only way you can be emotionally irrational is if you follow a course of action that will punish you more than it rewards you.

No. Having no emotions at all makes things boring and tedious.

I disagree with your argument because both these things have a direct connection to emotions.

That said, I don't want to be without emotions, because I'm perfectly happy with feeling happy.
Wow, that sounded so much better in my head.

Embarrassing comments are forbidden.

Eeeeeeehh?!

 

[9Darksoul6]

Well, you must live in one bleak world if all happiness is just "false" to you. And I can't even begin explaining how wrong it is to compare emotions, a basic part of humankind (much like breathing or eating), to drugs.

So emotions won't bring you unhappiness because they're a basic part of being human?
So is dying.
As for the bleakness you suppose there's in my vision of the world, that's not a rational argument, and even not an argument at all; it may, however, be evidence of what I'm saying: suppose everyone in the world did cocaine, and someone says it damaged their lives; that's the kind of talk that everyone would use to counter his argument:
"The world without this shit feels so bleak; I don't know if I could live without it".

As for Equilibrium, fear or anger are not the emotions they tried to eradicate.

No, they were trying to eradicate emotions as a whole. That's what the movie's constantly saying.
And even if they weren't, my point stands: eradicating most emotions but keeping some would be completey pointless and is a stupid premise.

Fear and anger are basic instincts that appear in all life forms that have a way to express themselves. Fear is necessary to survive, because if we didn't fear, we would pretty much die very quickly.

You know that's not true.
For instance:
A) A creature is afraid of fire; it will try to avoid fire.
B) a creature burns itself; it doesn't like pain; it will try to avoid fire.
It's not fear that helps you survive, it's brain power/smartness/inteligence.
Imagine if we feared food? Would that help us survive?
What you said makes no sense.

It's similar with anger, impatience or disgust. Other emotions, like love, happiness, sadness, disappointment, jealousy, being excited and other; those are what make our lives go on. Yes, you could survive without love, but for what? Would you live in a world without art and development? No music, no books, no inspiration, no imagination, no preference for colour, way of life, profession? Because, emotions are the basis of those things. Without emotions, we wouldn't have videogames so we wouldn't be here discussing this.

I hope you don't find talking about videogames as important as you make it sound it is. xD

So, no, I don't think our lives would be better. We wouldn't have anything to judge whether they are better or not. What WOULD be better is if we could learn how to control them and not behave on any impulse. That would save us a lot of trouble, not eradicating emotions altogether.

As for the rest of your rethorical, poetic and very emotive pro-emotion speech, I will once again bring up the cocaine analogy.

 

[TheGuiggleMonster]

Even if life was boring and uninteresting without happiness, you wouldn't be able to feel depressed or bored anyway so I say yes.

 

[Astoria]

While I complain about having emotions a lot I wouldn't give them up. Without emotions you're basically a robot so life is meaningless and empty.

 

[9Darksoul6]

Being without emotion would make humans monsters.

Calling something a "monster" is an act of discust, which is an emotion.
That's circular logic.

 

[Womlet]

Without emotions I would be able to get those pancakes with the smily face on them at IHOP. that and Mr. Blue Sky by ELO (the happiest song on the planet) wouldnt exist; that or it would be Mr. bland Sky.

 

[Seraniel]

could we even still be realy human without emotions *boring pro emotions speech* in any event i agree with most here that it would be boring like hell. our emotions drive us to do what we do each day (mostly)

 

[bluepilot]

Not having emotions would be like drinking coke without whiskey

It maybe true that if you do have the coke with this whiskey you may laugh, cry, and end up naked covered in your own vomit, but the negative concequences are worth the crazy crazy ride

Plus I would have not to feel happy when I see a kitten

 

[Alon Shechter]

No. Having no emotions at all makes things boring and tedious.

But if you have no emotions, you don't feel bored.
AHAH!

 

[FalloutJack]

I would like the power to turn other people's emotions OFF. Imagine you're in a row with the parents and you want them to suddenly lack the ability to emote their ridiculous anger.

*Blip*

So, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stein... Jack has the floor 'cause you're barely able to raise that lofty voice of yours.

 

[sorry user name taken.]

No.

You would die.

If you do not fear, you will die, as you have no self-preservation awareness.

this pretty much

you'd just be a body a soulless body...