Logic

[prettymacoroni]

Why do people place so much value in being "logical" when doing so means ignoring our gut instincts and our emotions which are arguably the only things that make us human? I find myself trying to temper and rationalize my responses, but it feels like lying sometimes. I know that sometimes my thoughts wouldn't make sense to someone else, and that my

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[prettymacoroni]

That's so true. I believe that people should always trust their gut when it comes to reading people or situations, whether it's logical or not.
Problems happen though when I get feelings about something or someone and I have no real concrete evidence to back them up. Like, I'm picking up on something, but I don't know what it is.
I know people who tend to overreact to things, or who develop crazy assumptions and freak out about them... and sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the same thing.
Sometimes the logical part of me tells me I'm being crazy, it asks me for evidence, it reexamines things in such a way that it makes it feel like I'm stupid for feeling what I am.
"So you think he's an asshole because he... likes jujitsu a lot? ...Really?"
"So you assume she's lying because her voice sounded different than usual?...And that's all you got?"
And then I feel stupid, or insane. If I needed to explain myself to someone I couldn't do it.

[socrateswarrior]

Look at it this way. Emotions are the base, and logic is what's built on top of that within a given human's perspective. Logic commonly gets a bad rap from those who would label it as a cold outlook on life, and that may be true - when logic exists in a vacuum. But, in a healthy individual, it shouldn't exist in a vacuum. It exists, in my opinion, as a lens on the raw reactions and responses that emotions provide us

[zanosoar]

I don’t usually reply to posts but I will in this case.