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Originally Posted by pshun2404
Understanding this question precludes one's psych-social paradigm.
For example, a strict materialist who is convinced that all that exists is the result of chemical interaction and accident cannot attach a "reason" for why we feels or care. They can only address the subject of nerves and physical senses that are involved in the experience
On the other end of the spectrum, a person who intuits or sense there is more (perhaps even what we call a spiritual aspect of reality the normal physical senses cannot perceive) would see consciousness and sensitivity as based in something else and these physical forms and systems are like a tuner the real "person" is channeled through.
I feel that living without a tendency to care or fear is a sad sociopathy in which we miss so much of life. Hold cold and meaningless life and our exciting differences of personality, culture, looks, would become....without being able to enjoy or be repulsed (of course these are extremes) how would we exist? Life would become meaningless IMO.
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Honestly, a variety of views begets a variety of answers, which when it's a question with no exact "right" answer, is welcome when a person needs input as I did when I wrote this. At the time I wrote this, I was also very tired of being hurt feeling and sad feeling for no apparent reason, then all the sudden I felt anger for no particular reason. Emotions are a fickle thing that have no rhyme or reason sometimes, and when that is the case they can get in the way both of your social relationships and of your life in general, not to mention your sanity. So yes, at the time, I very much wanted an "emotional off switch". Yea, it's nice to feel emotions when they make sense, especially the positive ones...but when you go weeks at a time with emotions that make no sense at all, and are negative ones, emotions become a detriment and very unwanted.