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To: neolib who wrote (93491)	11/3/2008 9:31:35 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541490

Not sure what you are getting at. What I'm getting at is that, while emotions may be innate, all are not helpful and most are not helpful in excessive quantities or inappropriate situations. As we mature, we learn to manage our emotions. If that doesn't work, we see a shrink or go to anger management classes. We learn discipline and to shift to more objective mechanisms. Fairness is generally considered to be a "good" emotion. It has excellent PR. Some people like it so much that they want to build political systems around it, like socialism. Or they use it to manipulate the public, like race or class baiting. That is what I dispute. I don't think it's helpful as a political metric. It's fine in small groups, maybe even positive, and it's useful for designing some of the simple protocols of civilization like queuing up to vote. But I think it is a problem causer, not a problem solver, in politics. I think we should discourage it, not give it favorable treatment.