well there were numerous debates on death penalties around the world and it was found that many people are disgusted by it, so it became law that the practice was no longer enacted

Look everyone is going to use emotions in a debate regardless unless they're psychopaths and cannot feel emotion. However, You cannot make pure emotional statements with nothing to back its utility

Yeah that's retarded

Some people have to die

@מוות שחור#2673 There is a difference between something able to exist, and something being able to be argued for. Obviously, existence precedes reason. And reason never reaches infallible conclusions, it is relative to previous ones, and therefore can at once be totally wrong. Reason and debate exists on a lesser level than emotion: both produce our motivations in the world, but in terms of truth, the comprehension through emotion is capable of a higher level of understanding because it has the capacity to comprehend that which is yet unproven.

Like mob bosses and gang leaders who can operate within prisons

No emotion cannot comprehend what is yet unproven it *assumes* the unproven is proven

That's what makes it retarded

It *assumes* truth

You can assume truth on literally anything

A Muslim can assume truth

A Christian can assume truth

An atheist can assume truth

But sometimes that assumption resembles truth.

Assuming things exist is literally retarded

It resembles truth because you want to believe it does

It makes you happy

It helps you cope

Retarded line of logic

It says nothing about *truth*

Simply what YOU want truth to be

Do you understand?

truth seems to be an unrelated topic

No it's not

We're talking about the effectiveness of emotion in debates

In this case the existence of god

It is utterly useless

but im not talking about god

w t f

Then get out of the conversation

???

I'm not arguing two people on different topics at the same time

Wait your turn

I am stating that sometimes people believe in something before is has been 'proven' by reason. It is therefore possible to resemble truth through emotion, a hypothesis formed by intuition.

Sometimes people believe in things that are later proven

That's just confirmation bias

It says nothing about whether it is true

If I was some guy in 1000 ad

For some reason my emotions told me germs exist

I can't reasonably claim they exist without proof

There is some intuitive wisdom in emotion.