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I used to think this. Then everyone came out about how Kamala didn't get them excited, aka appeal to their emotions. When I pointed this out and that they weren't thinking logically and instead relying on emotions they frankly agreed, saying something something not a robot. And there were proud of it.
I agree, even the notion that the left is more "intellectual" is surface-level only, you can just as easily be someone who thinks but uses those thoughts to validate feelings over shared reality. We do a very bad job broadly of understanding or recognizing our own cognitive biases and dissonances, and the left is just as stupid as the right about a great many things. This isn't to take the position of the enlightened centrist, but instead the need to remind people that this isn't WWE, and we're not actually choosing sides, we're trying to uphold values and principles that others happen to share. We want good outcomes for everyone, not specific outcomes for specific people.
Even if we solved all our issues tomorrow and removed the republican leadership from politics entirely, we would still have to share a country with them the next day, and how rapidly would we become the thing we hate as we work to punish them or ignore them until they reach a breaking point? We are doomed to repeat history over and over because we cannot separate ourselves from our survival instincts and feelings, and we have fantastic brains that will spin narratives to justify our feelings about anything, from the most mundane decisions about lunch, to genocide.
Is being an intellectual mutually exclusive with having emotions? Because as far as I know all people have emotions..
If you let your emotions dictate your thoughts and actions, I have bad news for you.
Bro, you do it too, you just don't admit it to yourself.
I don't do it to a point of being a complicit in electing Hitler 2.0. Which shouldn't be abhigh bar. But here we are!
Yeah that's what I thought, you're exhibit A.
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Modern psychology and neuroscience agrees with me. Eg. https://neurosciencenews.com/emotion-reason-decision-making-25803/
Or have a read of Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow if you want something a bit deeper.
The human brain is packed full of inescapable cognitive biases, many of which relate to emotions. They occur just as much for you as for me, and ignoring them or denying them just makes the problem worse.
Lololololololol. Whatever you're trying to say it's based on wine tasting. Lolololololol.
My last message to you is: go ahead and cry during old yeller. When it comes to politics, think.
Ah, ignoring evidence because it doesn't support your pre-existing views. Text-book case of confirmation bias 😊
You do know that people exist on a spectrum of behaviors,right? Oh why do I bother. Have at your emotions, but know that not everyone lets them dictate their actions like you.
Yes. My point is that everyone is on the spectrum, and a purely rational mode of decision-making does not exist in humans. Every decision has emotional components.
I never said that decisions are purely emotional.
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And that means plenty of people do not let them dictate their thoughts and actions. That's what I said from the start. To which you responded "Bro, you do it too, you just don't admit it to yourself." So no, I don't let them dictate my thoughts and actions.
Ok really I can't even in this conversation. Best I can figure is you're arguing against a strawman. Ciao. For real.