The questions posed were:

What do people really mean when they say they to 'remove emotion' from your beliefs?

And for context I said: I've never 100% understood what is really meant here. I've arrived at objective truths, but I'm sure it's always been born through emotion. Often that lucidity or clarity stems from some feeling attached to it. I see knowledge and emotions as being inextricably linked. One can assume the position of neutrality, but even that neutrality is an emotion itself. I see very often that logical thinkers speak in a very halting manner; flat affect etc. ...but they're still quite obviously emotional.

Presumably we're talking about removing types of emotion so strong and blinding that it could distort the truth. Not all emotion altogether. We usually give people **** for extremes of emotion; I have to believe that's what's being referred to here (merely irrational emotions?). Though perhaps not.

Right, exactly. This is sort of along the lines of what I'm talking about. Even when we're lamenting lack of emotions we're employing some kind of emotion.