January 15, 2008
Logic or emotion? What decides?
The prompt for this journal entry was “What do you value more logic or emotions? What does society value more? and What does schools value more?” This question had me split in two as to what I am/value more. In this entry I made generalizations or stereotypes, if you will, and I don’t fit in to them. I find that I am a very religious spiritual person but I analyze everything. Where as religious people, I think, are more emotional people, whereas scientologist are more logical. I enjoyed thinking about it though.
They both are something everyone is born with and everybody is different when it comes to them and which one they value more. Generally, I think more with my logic, I think things out and analyze everything from what people say to me to what I’m doing at the moment. But I have days where my emotions take over me and my decision making is weakened because I don’t think things through. Therefore you could say that I value logic. In society today what is valued depends on many factors: social level, job, location, and background. People who are from the streets tend to be emotional, though the emotions are on the “tough” side, whereas people from a rich city is going to grow up more with logic. More religous people tend to be more emotionally driven even though I could be a counter argument for that. Schools today value more logic, which is why we have a race to the top of our classes and class meetings about our test scores. If you think about it then that is pretty obvious considering school is designed to boast your knowledge and the way you problem solve. I think that the majority of the public value logic more then emotion.
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