Message from @Alice Redacted
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Mind you, not recklessly so - but within reason
@Alice Redacted
You simply don't want the same thing all of the time. Wisdom in this case would be knowing that you need to muster your emotions so that you feel good in the future and that you act consistently with your greater emotional needs.
You cannot simply do whatever you feel like doing and act consistently with all emotions at all times. Some emotions are stronger at some times, and they contradict each other.
Are you talking about impulse control?
Impulses aren't emotions
Emotions aren't impulses
Anger is an emotion, and you may have to control it if you love your wife, for example.
That's fair
Impulse control is ONLY hard when there is a strong emotion under it
but you seem to be saying that emotions, in general, are bad
No, I am saying that they need to be structured rationally
and that we should rid ourselves of them
If you try to cover them up, they'll come out somewhere else
Everything we do is based in emotions
Of course, venting is useful at times
It's just a matter of whether or not we're acting rationally
expressing them in some way
be it to a friend, a lover, through writing, painting, or whatever you enjoy
acting purely "rationally" in a "realpolitik" sort of way is dangerous
particularly to those lacking power
I don't believe that empathy is an emotion
One which we should never risk suppressing.
Do you mean compassion
It's most certainly a feeling one has towards another
compassion, care, love, whatever you name it
Sympathy... all similar words, all feelings divorced from pragmatism
I can feel empathetic towards another
When oxytocin, the chemical that causes compassion, is increased it actually leads to warlike and tribal behavior
I'd like to ask for a citation
ah
in-group/out-group favoritism?
Altruism is game theoretic
And unconditional love for all people generally fails
Looking at it, it seems to benefit the in-group link
Reciprocity is a better goal for empathy
rather than damage opinions of an out-group
Also, they can both function side by side
Besides, in-group altruism can actually benefit out-groups
Primary/elementary is to teach kids to be good citizens and anything beyond is to teach skills to be good workers.
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