What influences you more in situations, logic or emotions?

I would react emotionally. If they could think like that once, that defines it for me.

Both.

Alcohol actually.

I just realized what AA stands for.

I go by logic mainly. Emotion just ruins lives via having babies too early and getting in trouble with the law. If I met the perfect woman and knew she wasn’t crazy and was totally compatible with her, I still wouldn’t marry her for the simple fact that it can still turn sour and ruin my life if we get divorced lol.

Primarily logic. I allow emotion to contribute but I do not think that the majority of decisions should be decided by emotion.

For example, someone steals something from me and I catch them. Emotion would tell me to beat him to a bloody pulp and logic would say that, if I beat him to a bloody pulp, I will go to jail. Instead of beating him to a bloody pulp, logic tells me to restrain him and call 911.

So that is what I would do, then go to the Dojo to let my emotion have its turn by kicking the everliving crap out of the kicking bag because I know he is going to get away with a slap on the wrist.

cough

Always logic. It’s just how I’m built. The associated emotions of a given situation usually hit me well after the fact (often when I least expect it).

I have been accused of being cold in my decision making processes.

Luckily, I have my wife (who’s the exact opposite) to reel me into the middle ground.

My head rules my heart except when it doesn’t.

@SeventhSense – Moi aussi. Je comprends complètement.

I have become logical despite that I am emotional by nature. I reason everything out . I accept very little without documentation. I usually require Scientific documentation or at least proof which I can verify from more than one source.

Usually, I try to have logic make up my mind. Sometimes emotions win, though.

i think logic, aka reason, ultimately influences all actions. we reason either fallaciously or soundly and emotions are just contributing facts that we base our reasoning on. (eg. “I’m feeling hurt by you, therefore, i’m going to yell at you.” as an example of potentially poor emotion-based reasoning/logic)

Anger is not to be underestimated. In human history, most things did not get accomplished UNTIL people grew angry enough to motivate them to action. Of course, that also includes rabid lynch mobs, which is where a trusted, level-headed leader comes in real handy. Humans tend not to think clearly when overcome with emotion. Things get out of whack when no such leader is present.

As such, I utilize both emotion and logic/reason. I allow myself to be angry when I see it will do the most good. But when it comes to negotiating with other people to the benefit of all involved, anger is the most inappropriate tool imaginable.

In the scenario you’ve given, I don’t have any problem whatsoever, dismissing a person like that from my life. I’m damn good at it. I know that I can miss them later, and even love them from a distance. But I don’t agree with rewarding them with a fruitful life. If they were friends with me, we’re done. No wishy-washy, no back and forth. It’s over.

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@faye So you have a list that if a person did X. Z. T. H. and W somewhere in their past no matter what they did since then or who they are today, that moment in their past determines who they are? How far back to you keep a score card?

Logic, logic, logic!!! You let emotions creep into any important decision and you and or the other people or things at stake are toast!!! PERIOD! Family included!

@Hypocrisy_Central I think if a person could think of and agree to do certain things, that defines them. The example was blowing up schools. The scorecard lasts forever. I’m not talking about smokin’ a joint here. Cruelty to animals, pedophilia, a little penchant for violence = character, or rather no character and I don’t want to know these people.

Well if I was the President I would certainly distance myself from this person for the sake of the campaign.

I found out someone I knew casually, was a hit-man for the mob. I could never look at him the same way again because it was so far out of my head space. I never thought it was my job to turn him in, and it was in the past but I could not be friendly with him anymore. To me it’s worse than being a serial killer. To the sociopath it’s a disease. To the contract killer it’s for money which I find beyond deplorable.
Some actions that are made, whether forgivable or not hold ramifications that are for a lifetime.

Logic and general calmness… followed by severe constipation.

Logic but I’m not hesitant about trusting my emotions either.

The gut feeling is a wonderful tool to keep your butt out of hot water.

It’s kept me safe when relying on logic alone would have had me discounting the danger my gut was shrieking about.

I’d like to say logic, but prolly emotion.

Generally neither. I am more a creature of instinct.

Solutions.

@CorwinofAmber Nice. :)

Depends on the situation. Times are when I have had to put emotions aside and let myself hurt like hell in order to choose what is right or best. That’s life and it can really suck. The good part is the times where something goes my way seem to make up for any hardships or disappointments. I’m a believer in “one hit can heal nine misses”.

I incorporate a bit of both, I try to be more logical than emotional. Lately I’ve been more aware and try to pick up when I’m responding to something emotionally when I should be thinking more logically. It’s not easy to react logically in some situations though because emotions are so strong and a dominant central component to us as humans.

No one is even slightly interested that I knew a man who killed at least seventeen people?

@SeventhSense I feel your pain nobody seemed too interested in the fact that I twice sold candy as a cub scout fundraiser to John Wayne Gacy. I Sh!t a brick when I found that out. Mass murderers are so passes these days.

LOL. I agree it’s so ten minutes ago.
Hey kid want to dress up as a clown? Now that’s fucked up. People are more scared of real things like vampires and werewolves.

@SeventhSense @Cruiser I’m interested but wouldn’t that be hijacking the thread?

@faye
Certainly not because we’re discussing the topic and the conversation is between everyone not just the questioner and answerer. It’s quite germane anyway.
Well actually not much of a story anyway. I knew him from a friend and he was strangely a really nice guy and the last you would have suspected of homicide. He wasn’t a made man or anything because he wasn’t Sicilian or even Italian for that matter but it just creeped me out. It was like, this guy may have killed me at one point if he was just given a bunch of cash. OK maybe not me but had I been in different circumstances or borrowed some money from the wrong people…eww…shudder..

@SeventhSense They do say sociopaths are perceived as charming. What is the pc term for them now?

@SeventhSense You are not speaking of Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano are you?

@faye
I think it’s wackjob..no I’m sorry wackadoodle
@Hypocrisy_Central
No he was a made man. I certainly wouldn’t talk about Cosa Nostra in public. This was a hired gun. A thug

I would just accept them for what they are, were. I guess I don’t judge people for their thoughts or past actions. It’s the now that counts for me.

In terms of your other question, I believe my emotion tells my brain what I am thinking, so I have my “moment” then use my head.