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Old 2012-08-22, 07:27   Link #1500
Obelisk ze Tormentor
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Originally Posted by Qilin View Post
Obviously, it only represents a part of the person's actual feelings, but why should that have to mean that such things can just be dismissed?

Emotion is as much a part of the self as reason. Everyday social behavior is the result of the interplay between those two elements. However, one's emotions tend to be less apparent as they are usually suppressed to a certain extent by regulatory mechanisms controlled by reason. In that sense, it could be said that our cognitive faculties serve to obscure certain aspects of the self, particularly the less desirable ones. It's just that people tend to focus solely on reason as representative of the self.
I think all people have negative impulses/emotion deep down (as well as good impulses/emotion). Yes, even good people have the bad ones too. The only differences are the degree & frequency and how we control them with our reason. Taichi just happen to be forced to express his in its rather purest form to Inaba (thanx to our supertroll friend).

So I’m not dismissing emotion as the integral part, but emotion is just one ingredient to make human mind’s products. Thus, emotion alone does not necessarily represent how good or bad a person is. Much like your lower body can’t represent your entire physical figure. We have to consider the entirety.
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