Poll: Emotions and such.

[Benn_Walden]

If you could would you choose to stop having emotions and just always be calm and reasonable rather than getting sad, happy, jealous?

 

[Radeonx]

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

 

[Novania]

I wouldn't give up my emotions. Then what's the point of still living? You'd be constantly bored because you wouldn't have any emotional attachment to thing to make you interested.

YOU WOULDN'T LOVE GAMING ANYMORE!!!

 

[Aurgelmir]

I would take all the downs in order to feel the ups. Emotion brings Art and passion... and all the good things in the world.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Nope. Haven't you seen Equilibrium?

 

[gostlyfantom]

hell no, sure emotions can be a pain in the ass but meh whatever the shit passes

 

[loc978]

There's a difference between having emotions, and acting on those emotions:

always being calm and reasonable rather than getting sad, happy, or jealous

-isn't a sign of emotionlessness, it's a sign of self-control.

 

[Evangelion_01]

Well you wouldn't be bored because you have no emotions at all...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Never. No fucking way am I going to give up love. I need my pain as well as my joy in order to grow.

Incedentally, anyone else thinking of this movie right now? [http://www.traileraddict.com/content/dimension-films/equilibrium.jpg]

SNIP

Damn, beaten to the punch.

 

[Chefodeath]

The human race would be much more efficient and there would be a lot less problems in the world, but it would make life as we know it boring and uninteresting. I wouldn't be willing to make that sacrifice.

How do you figure? The emotion of greed is the engine of capitalism. The emotions of displeasure with inefficency is what drives invention. Do i even need to mention what would happen to the arts?

Not to mention, no matter what was accomplished, it would all be fucking meaningless.

 

[Hiikuro]

Without emotions I would have no purpose or reason to live.

Good and bad emotions alike, I appreciate them all for what they are and what they give me.

 

[Jonluw]

I consider myself fairly emotionless already, and I'd say it isn't all that fun. Of course, I'm not completely emotionless, so maybe being 100% emotionless might be better; but you know, sometimes I just wish I could handle emotions normally. Or perhaps I am handling them normally and I just don't realize that it's normal. Whatever.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

If that meant that I would get my own Blessed Weapon and Wings

Spoiler: Like this guy did

- Then hell yeah I would!

 

[Lyx]

If you could would you choose to stop having emotions and just always be calm and reasonable rather than getting sad, happy, jealous?

That makes no fucking sense. Removal of emotions would also remove a fundamental part of reason. Yes i know humans have some weirdo concept of emotions (just another one of their many dichotomies that are based on..... nothingness) - they even consider them isolated from reason/logic - still doesn't mean i need to follow this baseless bullshit.

Or shorter: Topic fail.

Does a computer need emotion to do its work?

YES, IT DOES! It's called "signal" there. Have fun programming without signal-style return values (hint: Its impossible, because even the most basic logical decisions will become undoable). Does that mean that a computer "feels" stuff? Not necessarily, because so far computers are not aware.

 

[Watchmacallit]

Having no feelings about something means you would never be excited or happy. So what if you're unhappy some of the time, its worth it to feel good in life

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Yes. Okay.
I have no particular attachment to my emotions. Actually I seem to spend most of my time just being angry and nothing else.
By this point having them is like having a sense of smell with an upper lip made of ass.

 

[FamoFunk]

Sound very good, doesn't it?

Alas, it's not something I could do. I'd miss feeling happy, love, excitment. You know, all the good feelings. Hell, I'd even miss feeling sad and such.

 

[lacktheknack]

No thanks. Emotions are part of being human.