Do Liberals Understand Emotion and Intuition Are Different?

Liberals seem to have an addiction to believing "feeling" refers to both emotion and intuition.

This poll is a challenge to liberals to show they understand the difference, and anyone who's reading it can vote on whether or not they're satisfied with liberals' explanations.

I dont understand, I feel like they are the same thing.

Where do you come up with this stuff?

megaprogman said:

Where do you come up with this stuff?

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There's been a lot of complaints lately about pro-lifers seeming emotional over abortion.

It's not emotional, but liberals don't seem to get it.

Daktoria said:

There's been a lot of complaints lately about pro-lifers seeming emotional over abortion.

It's not emotional, but liberals don't seem to get it.

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Depends on the argument. Some abortion arguments are emotional, some are not. Why not acutallyt lnk to these complaints so we can judge if they are accurate or not?

Daktoria said:

There's been a lot of complaints lately about pro-lifers seeming emotional over abortion.

It's not emotional, but liberals don't seem to get it.

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1. Your threads would start off much better if you include stuff like this in your OP (the reason why you ask your question, context is always good).
2. The nurturing instinct plays a huge role in this debate and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise.

I leave context out because I'm trying to remain unbiased.

There are other issues where liberals believe emotions plays a primary role such as environmental protection, sex and race equality, and gun control.

Anyway, it's a general ideology, not a specific issue. I'd rather liberals talk about emotion and intuition themselves rather than played out through abortion.

Daktoria said:

I leave context out because I'm trying to remain unbiased.

There are other issues where liberals believe emotions plays a primary role such as environmental protection, sex and race equality, and gun control.

Anyway, it's a general ideology, not a specific issue. I'd rather liberals talk about emotion and intuition themselves rather than played out through abortion.

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You don't think there are valid logical reasons for the typically liberal stances in those debates?

That says more about your ability to dismiss and ignore arguments you don't like than it says about liberals.

Daktoria said:

I leave context out because I'm trying to remain unbiased.

There are other issues where liberals believe emotions plays a primary role such as environmental protection, sex and race equality, and gun control.

Anyway, it's a general ideology, not a specific issue. I'd rather liberals talk about emotion and intuition themselves rather than played out through abortion.

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Oh...my....god....

Irony overload....

No, seriously, there are logical arguments and emotional arguments used be people on every side of all those issues. You have a very clear emotional reaction to liberals which colors your thinking.

Without examples of what you are talking about, we cannot discuss them fairly since the presentation is colored by your bias.

Redress said:

Oh...my....god....

Irony overload....

No, seriously, there are logical arguments and emotional arguments used be people on every side of all those issues. You have a very clear emotional reaction to liberals which colors your thinking.

Without examples of what you are talking about, we cannot discuss them fairly since the presentation is colored by your bias.

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I think the problem here is that he is not noticing the emotional arguments that he personally agrees with. Also, often the line is not always very clear.

megaprogman said:

You don't think there are valid logical reasons for the typically liberal stances in those debates?

That says more about your ability to dismiss and ignore arguments you don't like than it says about liberals.

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I didn't say that.

The point is liberals dismiss their opposition as emotional when they're being intuitive.

They don't seem to grasp the difference.

Daktoria said:

I didn't say that.

The point is liberals dismiss their opposition as emotional when they're being intuitive.

They don't seem to grasp the difference.

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Is it they whom do not understand the difference, or the other way around?

Redress said:

Oh...my....god....

Irony overload....

No, seriously, there are logical arguments and emotional arguments used be people on every side of all those issues. You have a very clear emotional reaction to liberals which colors your thinking.

Without examples of what you are talking about, we cannot discuss them fairly since the presentation is colored by your bias.

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See, that's what I'm talking about.

I didn't say logic versus emotion. I says intuition versus emotion.

You're treating logic and intuition like they're mutually exclusive.

Ikari said:

Is it they whom do not understand the difference, or the other way around?

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You might be right. It's possible that the difference doesn't understand liberals.

Daktoria said:

Liberals seem to have an addiction to believing "feeling" refers to both emotion and intuition.

This poll is a challenge to liberals to show they understand the difference, and anyone who's reading it can vote on whether or not they're satisfied with liberals' explanations.

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I'll bite.

Emotions distorts everything you think you see, yet they are the only thing that give relevance or prevalence to the world around you. Without them, you would listlessly watch your loved ones endure atrocities and apathetically starve to death while the world burned around you. People like to think they are rational beings, yet the human mind is really just an add-on to the same animal brain that every other mammal possesses. You can resist your emotions (learning to is a part of becoming an adult) but that requires energy and you've only got a finite amount of it. We dance to the tune of our emotions, partially able to decide when and where we get on the dance floor, but they're the ones dictating the type of dancing we do.

Intuition is your brain running on mental shortcuts, processing information on a subconscious level and coming to plausible conclusions faster but less accurately than plodding through things logically. Emotion is a filter, a set of baseline assumptions for the things you intuit. The intuition of a teenage boy might be verbalized as, "I like pretty women. Pretty women like Ax body spray. Therefore I like Ax body spray."

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So, do you feel my deplorably liberal college education adequately equipped me to understand the difference?

Daktoria said:

There's been a lot of complaints lately about pro-lifers seeming emotional over abortion.

It's not emotional, but liberals don't seem to get it.

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If a pro-lifer is willing to stand outside an abortion clinic and scream hate and threaten doctors and even women that walk into them, I think that qualifies as emotion.

Daktoria said:

There's been a lot of complaints lately about pro-lifers seeming emotional over abortion.

It's not emotional, but liberals don't seem to get it.

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I'm pro-life and I think abortion is an emotional topic. Pretty much any issue people care about can get emotional. I don't understand your question at all. I'm trying to figure out how pro-lifers are being "intuitive" in our arguments and how that's being confused with emotion.

X Factor said:

I'm pro-life and I think abortion is an emotional topic. Pretty much any issue people care about can get emotional. I don't understand your question at all. I'm trying to figure out how pro-lifers are being "intuitive" in our arguments and how that's being confused with emotion.

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Do you believe people can care without being emotional?

Daktoria said:

Do you believe people can care without being emotional?

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No. I mean, some can control their emotional responses better than others and I believe people can care yet argue in an unemotional or dispassionate way, but I think caring includes emotion.

Daktoria said:

The point is liberals dismiss their opposition as emotional when they're being intuitive.

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Have you got proof for this statement?

Daktoria said:

Liberals seem to have an addiction to believing "feeling" refers to both emotion and intuition.

This poll is a challenge to liberals to show they understand the difference, and anyone who's reading it can vote on whether or not they're satisfied with liberals' explanations.

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Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -- then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."

And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky -- then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."

And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.

Kahlil Gibran