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emotions reason
Debate Score:8
Arguments:8
Total Votes:8
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 emotions (4)
 
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should life be followed by emotions or reasons

often we face decitions that can be moraly wrong but seem right. or are moraly right but yet feels wrong. therefor what is better for advice your resoning or your feelings. 

emotions

Side Score: 4
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reason

Side Score: 4

I think emotions tell us what someone really feels thus they are what should lead your life. At the end you will get what you want/do to.Your life would also be exciting. If you support reason than your life may be too straight forward. You should be spontaneous at times. reason would just get you confused if you do not want it to be there or you do not like it.

Side: emotions
1 point

emotions are what tell us right from wrong... it our built in ethical compass.

its FAR too easy rationalize doing evil, but one cannot escape the 'feeling' that you are doing evil.

reason is how we go about ignoring that feeling.

Side: emotions
1 point

It should be followed by emotions because they are more important than reasons and mean a lot more also it's your life so you should live it how you feel not how others think therefore making it into a reason that you could pick to live on. Some people may argue that some peoples emotions can be like " ugh no I don't feel like it " so making them miss something really important in their lives just because of their emotions but it's their life , so if thats what they want to do / what is meant to be then it will happen.

Side: emotions
1 point

We live in a world where people care more about feelings than thoughts. "How are you feeling, i dont feel like doing this, we as the group feel." We aught to pay more attention to thoughts and ideas, now thoughts and ideas, they interest me. Think about what you do. Dont feel your way about it.

Side: reason

As a reasonable person I can speak objectively about people that have argued towards me using their emotions. They often cloud things and get in the way. There's no reason to even have emotions. You can be moral without them if you try to think logically you can see the fault in stealing and killing.

Side: reason
skyfish(276) Disputed
1 point

its just as easy, maybe even easier to JUSTIFY stealing and killing using the incredible power of rationalization that we poses.

its only a tool to understanding.

reason is not the guiding lite for our true purpose.

Side: emotions
artifact1122(8) Disputed
1 point

It's fine. More people kill out of emotion than anything else really. In the first place, bigotry is a feeling.

Side: reason
1 point

Yes yes, I get all that. But at the bottom of it all, I choose which emotions I believe are conducive to leading a healthy vibrant life and will myself to encourage them and act upon them while choosing to sort out my negative emotions, preferably in a way that doesn't cost the loved ones around me. So in the end, it's still reason. Living with emotion as a guide is... akin to eating according to appetite. I never feel like kale. But I eat kale anyway. Damn.

Side: reason