If everyone on the planet suddenly became emotionless logical being's. What repurcussions would this have on buisness, religion, government etc? Would the reality of the ability for world peace finally be recognized as achievable?
2007-09-23 00:30:45 · 11 answers · asked by Bane 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Read "Anthem" by Ayn Rand
2007-09-23 00:34:26 · answer #1 · answered by blueink 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess we'd be robots, or like Spock from Star Trek. If we were to do business (forget religion), government etc. on pure logic, I personally think the world would still be at risk; what is logical to one is illogical to another. Definitions would be the coin of that day, and coins lead to less ability to know what is logical and what isn't, as is individual logic.
I guess the only way for this old planet to recognize world peace as possible is for all humans to become one human, at least in thought. By that I mean all the minds of humans would have to have the same thoughts at the same time, hopefully patterned on some nice person rather than a dictator or other baddie... then agreement is present all the time. A bit boring perhaps, but nothing that's been done, so how can I judge that? I do think it would take emotion to realize war is bad though, not just logic. Interesting question, thanks.
2007-09-23 00:51:04 · answer #2 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there isn't any emotions in human beings business and government will be a war field due there's gonna be no honesty and no feelings at the moment to destroy any one to achieve our own interests, we won't feel that may be killing to achieve our goals to make money or to make our government program to work will be seen as something normal, is with feelings and there are people who don't care to make these same thing to achieve their goals now a days. About religion, wouldn't exist, if you don't have feelings and emotions, How will you believe? How will you have faith? So, I prefer to have feeling, be feelin-less can't bring perfection.
2007-09-23 00:40:50 · answer #3 · answered by Javy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the world was deprived of emotions, then there would be no sense in living. Without emotions, then the word humanity would make nop sense at all, for without emotions, we cannot empathize, sympathize, and learn from the world.
A stab nor a kiss would not mean anything.
Where is life in that?
2007-09-23 01:12:11 · answer #4 · answered by thebatman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the old Star Trek, Spock once said, "the opposite of logic is not illogic, it is emotion." This may be true, but without emotion we would be like androids, unable to experience beauty, love, and compassion. An android, Data of Star Trek, TNG said the opposite of Spock, "I would gladly risk feeling bad at times if I could taste my desert." Without risk, without the anticipation of adventure, without excitement and passion and love, what would be the sense of living?
2007-09-23 00:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would all be like zombie's, nobody would care about anything anymore, there wouldn't be any repercussions of anything. There probably would be peace because no one would care but peace would not be recognized or achieved.
2007-09-23 00:55:46 · answer #6 · answered by moonbow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mind acquires what the heart desires.
We are not intellect hampered by emotion. We are emotion empowered by intellect.
Life is desire. No desire, no life.
e-motion. Electronic Motion. The desire for action.
No business, no religion, no government, no war, no love, no desire, no future.
2007-09-23 01:09:44 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be nothing left to aim for! No emotion, no driving ambitions! Chaos!
2007-09-23 00:36:13 · answer #8 · answered by wheeliebin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then we would be like vegetation with legs, and probably more useful to the planet than we are now
2007-09-23 01:11:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
then we would be nothing but machines
2007-09-23 01:32:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋