I'm really not interested in getting into one of those sophistic arguments over whether you inferred something or not. Actually that's not true, I'm a little interested but I don't have the time to adequately get into it, and you would probably out post me and it might be days before I can respond. Then, I wouldn't probably respond because the post was so far down the thread, I would feel like I was beating a dead horse to re-engage the topic. :0)
res- But emotionality interferes with thinking, which is a critical function of humanity.
Depends on what level of emotion and what level of thinking is involved. Sometimes just the opposite occurs; people reason without emotion and come up with flawed concepts and flawed answers.
If a hungry pack of wolves is about to eat a person and she uses the emotional reaction of swiftly running, with the intelligence of where to run, she may survive the encounter. If she casts out all emotion, like a super-monk, and reasons she can craftily talk her way out of the situation while being munched to death, she has used no emotion and reasoned with seriously negative results (unless of course you want to commit suicide).
The same is true regarding too much emotion, if you flee without thinking of where you're running and race toward the edge of a cliff, the dogs will still eat you. So there is a balance, and the polar extremes of either side of the coin may have you moving toward the abyss. |
