03 Nov 2019, 4:49 pm
Humans are emotional creatures primarily.
I have watched hundreds of hours of real life homicide shows.
Much criminal activity happens because of sudden emotional decisions (low EQ decisions) that may be regretted later.
Like, crimes of passion, explosive anger, pent-up emotion, road rage, male bravado disrespected, jealously, love triangles, fights over who is right ...
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The human thinking process (reason, good judgement, thinking about outcome(s)) is turned off and overcome by emotion.
This is so sudden, that likely, the human does not have awareness that this has happened.
As later, the human may say, "I don't even know why I did that".
Likely, because, the human didn't even make a conscious decision; it was an "auto-pilot" emotional decision.
I find this fascinating.
In many cases, the human doesn't even desire the outcome.
In many, many, (MOST?) cases, the outcomes are ABSURDLY STUPID.
People will throw away everything, and do long prison sentences for trivial reasons.
"He disrespected me, so I killed him".
"He unliked me on Facebook, so I killed him".
This scares me about humans.
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I have reduced emotion.
However, many times emotion has controlled me.
What do you make of this aspect of humanity?
We would be boring creatures without emotion though?
Is SPOCK right? Does emotion make us weak (less optimal) because we're more likely to choose wrongly?
03 Nov 2019, 5:39 pm
