From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Date: Mon Jan 20 1997 - 18:27:43 MST
In a message dated 97-01-20 18:07:45 EST, you write:
<< I don't think I've ever said anything contrary to that. Indeed, I quite
clearly stated that I experience and enjoy emotion regularly. To deny
their existence in myself or others, or to act to supress them, would
indeed be irrational.
Actually I believe you said you wallow in them. ; )
<< What I am saying is entirely different. I am saying one should not
/evaluate/ ideas by the emotional response to them, but by reason. >>
Which is balancing emtional response with rational thought, and what I
suggested
to begin with.
<<To
use words only to manipulate the emotions of the listener--positively
as well as negatively--is to treat him as a puppet instead of a human.
He has a rational mind.>>
No one suggests you should do that.
<<He has free will. I know this because I know
that I have free will. I refuse to insult him by tailoring my ideas
to his irrational reactions. Indeed, if I know he has these irrational
reactions, I want to help him overcome them, not deny or evade them.
>>
We can get into free will if you want, just know that I also beleive like you
that we have it, and am also aware that it is something that needs to be
practised just like restraint of pen and tongue.
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