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Originally Posted by DanaC
Whilst I agree with your sentiment to a degree tw I think "Emotion has no place in adult thinking." takes it too far. We are not vulcans. We are thinking, feeling creatures. To make decisions and reach conclusions based on no more than an emotional response may be less useful than reaching your decisions or conclusions via a logical and calm thought process, but that doesnt mean any decision opinion or response which has involved emotion is unworthy. ...
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From those days of wrestling where a loss was not acceptable - emotion is a powerful tool. I only found out years later that we all became 'strange' the day before a match. Its part of tapping the emotion.
But emotion is only a tool that must be both used and controlled by the logical brain. Once emotion overrides the brain, then we have a minority groups of extremists destroying a night of entertainment in a Linda Rhonstadt concert. Or we have religious extremists blowing up airliners and crashing into buildings. The mentally weak are easiest to use as cannon fodder because they don't understand that emotions must always be secondary to logic. Cannon fodder can exist where men are driven by emotion rather than by logical reasoning (or cannon fodder can exist when men of logic realize the necessity of their task and use emotion in a suicidal (supreme) sacrifice).
In another post, I noted why this administration probably is promoting so many terrorist alerts. Fear. Fear is how a leader stays popular. Fear is why Father Stalin was so popular in the early USSR. Fear is the emotion we must get people to use so they don't think logically.
Once emotion overrided logic, then the world is in trouble or we have lots of troops ready to become cannon fodder. Yes, there always will be those who make good cannon fodder.
You may think we are not Vulcans. True. But the less often we act like Spock, then the more often we have drive by shootings - and other both emotionally inspired and illogical actions.