Are you more likely to make your political decisions based on logic, or emotion?

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Do you often make big political decisions based on emotion, rather than logic?

  1. Yes, I will admit that I do

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  2. No, I always aim to make political decisions purely based on logic

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  3. I'm not sure, maybe I do base a lot of decisions on emotion rather than logic

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  1. kazenatsu

    kazenatsu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Are you more likely to make your political decisions based on logic, or on emotion?

    I assume that very few people will admit they make their political beliefs based on emotion, but who knows, I could be proved wrong.
     
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    I get my information from ABC, NPR and CNN so I of course make informed voting decisions
     
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    I think there is a bit of a difference between beliefs and decisions. For me, belief is not a decision. This is something I realized as I came to accept that, no matter how hard I wanted to, I just did not believe in Christian claims. Belief is not a choice, but something I feel based on what I know and assume to be true.

    The same applies politically and everywhere else.
     
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  4. Pycckia

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    My experience is that beliefs are based on what the believer wants to be true.

    The belief in racial equality is belied by facts everyday but liberals never change their minds.
     
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    Not even going to bother with you.
     
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    Thinking that all political decision making should ideally be free of emotion(the unstated point of the thread) ignores the human beings that are making the decisions.

    With no emotion in politics and political decision making, there would also be no consideration for or protection of religion in politics. No compassion. No empathy. No respect. And no humanity.

    There would only be robots. And what is the usual result in all the stories when robots make decisions based purely on logic?
     
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    Without emotion there is no reason to prefer one result over another.
     
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    And that is an emotional response, par excell You find my response so odious you can't process it rationally.

    Perhaps all your political decisions are so motivated?
     
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    There has been strong validated research on this Forming the basis of a theorem - it is called “red brain blue brain” and shows that Republicans are more governed by threat responses

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/...fe/202010/red-versus-blue-brain-neuropolitics
     
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    Depends a lot on what is meant by “emotions”. There is a vast difference between “I feel uncomfortable about the decision to restrict voting rights” and someone shouting at you “The election was stolen! Stolen I tell you!”
    There is neurophysiological evidence that conservatives are more threat governed
     
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    LOL
     
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    How about the claim that Republicans are out to destroy democracy? Is that being threat governed?
     
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    Show me the science

    Is there a neurophysiological basis for it?

    Addit - rereading the excerpt from Psychology Today this could be part of the “error detection” response
     
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    There must be. There is a neurophysiological basis for all human behavior, right? Liberals are just as likely to embrace wacky ideas as anyone else.
     
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    So conservatives are cautious and liberals are reckless. That explains their tendency to f*ck things up with hare-brained ideas.
     
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    I try very hard to base my politics: what I vote for, on logic, and apply my emotions to my morals: how I expect myself to behave and how much I respect others based on how they behave. I am very conscious of separating what is right and wrong vs what I think should be legal and illegal. Freedom, at its foundation, is the right to act wrongly. Of course, being human, I must logically recognize that I am not 100% successful at this separation (anything that is is not human)... XD ...but I am highly successful at it. It helps that I seem to be very emotionally resilient (to what some consider an unhealthy level...), able to recover from mild emotional distress nearly instantly, and able to recover from severe emotional distress far quicker than anyone else I know. The downside is that I recover from joy with unfortunately similar speed.
     
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    Didn’t read the science did you?
     
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    You didn’t read the science did you ?
     
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    Not emotions, but reasoning in which I use logic, values, ideals, and measured feelings in an effort to identify, determine and pursue goals. I will allow my emotions to express themselves, not as a emotional thoughtless and irrational reaction but instead as a directed focus of productive energy.
     
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    In the interest of exploring this idea- do you think the desire for self preservation stems from logic or emotion? Same question regarding the desire to be successful/prosperous- is it logic based or emotion based?
     
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    I think he/she meant feelings, not emotions. Emotions are just a response to how you feel about something. Feelings are more of an intuitive and subconscious 'understanding' of your values in relation to your experiences and beliefs.
    Logic is necessary to organize your feelings to be more consistent with reality and objective in identifying and obtaining your goals. It is essential that a person uses both effectively in order to be more self aware, and more functional person.
     
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    It is only logical to oppose people you hate ;)
     
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    I believe it to be neither. It's a biological control in much the same way that it is neither logical or emotional for your heart to beat or your lungs no breath. It's an involuntary and base reaction to our environment that exists in every living creature.
     
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    I wonder what emotional state the author was in.
     
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    I consider myself to be liberal. I tend to make my political decisions depending on what cnn tells me.
     
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