Reason versus Emotion

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 51400

Hmm.  I'm not sure if it's actually POSSIBLE to reply to this post, as
that would be trying to answer emotion with reason, but I'll do my best
because I'm a glutton for punishment. ;)

Jade wrote: 
> It got me to thinking about this board and reason versus emotion. Now 
> please note, I am not a debater. I do not like debating. Debates seem 
> to me to be highly thought out intellectual "arguments", in which 
> someone always gets hurt. 

Actually, in a proper debate, feelings don't get hurt precisely because it
ISN'T emotional.  No one's going to say, "Ohmigod, you don't like Harry? 
You're such an idiot!" (Emotional reaction)  People would instead reply,
"You don't like Harry?  Well, have you considered these reasons why he
rocks?" (Intellectual reaction)  

> But I am an emotional being, and how I view things is from that 
> filter, generally. I do not like Harry. It is not an arguable 
> subject. Nothing anyone says is going to make me say: "Aha! They are 
> right, and Harry is not a nosey, self-centered, spoiled little git!" 
> It is not possible, because it is an EMOTION, which can not be 
> reasoned with. I just do not like him, and that is that. But I 
> noticed that folks tried to use REASON to argue their points, and (I 
> may be extrapolating here) to convince me otherwise.

And you have absolutely every right to feel so.  No one's saying
otherwise.  But...well...if the list was full of no one but people saying,
"I hate Harry!" "Well, I like Harry!", it would either get very boring or
full of people screaming at each other.  Neither of which is a list I'd
really care to frequent. ;)  By at least presenting some reasons for a
particular opinion, it gives us the opportunity to comment on what you've
said without resorting to, "You hate Harry?  You stink!"  Much more
interesting board, IMO. :)



Andrea

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"Reality is for people who lack imagination."

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