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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (79807)	5/24/2000 4:54:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Emotions come before all that reasoning. Can't you remember what real emotions feel like, or maybe you never had emotions like I had emotions. When I was a child and was angry I wanted to kill. If I had been a bit bigger or had a gun, maybe I would have- a good reason to keep guns and children apart, imo. So people who angered me were BAD- just totally. Until I wasn't angry with them anymore. People COULD have been angering me for the very best of reasons- keeping me from harming myself, trying to teach me something- but that would NOT have mattered to the emotion. When I was pleased, I was totally pleased. I LOVED people who pleased me, because they made me happy. "Good" people pleased me- even if by pleasing me they were actually doing me harm. When I was sad, I would never be happy again, nothing was ever so bad. All the stuff you are talking about is reason interpreting emotion. Justifying it, explaining it, altering it. But emotion (imo) real emotion- is amoral. It just is. That's not to say you can't be emotional about reasonable moral things- but it certainly isn't required, nor does it even need to be usual. I see absolutely no connection at all between emotion and morality- except the connection some people force themselves to see or make. Maybe we live in different universes.