Emotions Final Essay

Emotions are detrimental to the human race because of five reasons (although this is actually not my belief).

The first reason is because they make people make stupid decisions that sometimes lead to ruin because they are swayed by emotion. A person will sometimes sacrifice millions of innocent lives to save one person who may not be particularly good because they are important to that person, simply because their emotions are tied to a particular person and are therefore choose selfishly. This causes problems with doing the logical things, as people will do what they feel like doing, rather than what is reasonable.

The second reason is because people allow emotions to affect how they see other people and react to those people. Many a conflict was started because someone felt negatively towards that person from something they said or seemed like, which would lead to them acting with bias and sometimes starting wars simply to get ‘revenge’. Conflicts lead to death and people getting hurt, and therefore are simply selfish acts, because the only people who enjoy conflicts (for a time) are those triggering them.

The third reason is the different things that are caused by emotions, such as the 7 deadly sins; greed, lust, gluttony, wrath, sloth, pride, and envy. All of these ‘sins’ are caused by negative emotions and selfishness. We want to feel better so we go into an access something in order to feel those good emotions and end up causing more problems with that. You could assume that selfishness is caused by emotion, because by wanting to feel better or feel good emotions, you will try to do stuff just for you. Selfishness itself is the root of many problems such as but not exclusive to, the 7 deadly sins.

The fourth reason is that emotion is unnecessary for life. If you remove emotions from the way you think and act, you are still thinking and acting. You are only being entirely logical rather than using emotions as an excuse to alter your thinking. Without emotions, humans can function properly and effectively. In fact, efficiency will increase because people will not become bored, tired, or lazy. You can get a lot more done in life without emotions and it will still be possible to live.

The fifth reason is that emotions are sometimes negative and can lead people to lose their ability to properly think because of things like depression, stress and extreme anger. People allow negative emotions to sway their behaviors. In fact, people will sometimes allow negative emotions to end their lives, which is completely irrational and wrong. Suicide because you are depressed should be removed from possibilities and if people are without emotion, they will not do such drastic things. In fact, they wouldn’t have need to, because they would never feel sad again. You would never have to feel depressed because something went wrong in your life and stressed because you had a lot to do. IT would make people more rational and less de-motivated.

Although this is not my true belief, these are reasons to perhaps why people would believe that emotions are not necessary or we would be better off without them, like the leader in the film “Equilibrium”.