Life Without Emotions

[Luffy2692]

if no one had any emotions, the world might be a better, or worse place. better, because no one would be sad, lonely, evil, etc. worse, because no one would feel satisfaction, love, happiness, etc. since alot of animals tend to have not as many emotions as humans, do you think it would be for the better or worse without them? explain (sounds like a school problem)

[The 21st Hokage]

Life without emotions would be kinda boring because can you imagine what sex would be like?

Me: Oh Yeah
Girl: Oh Baby
Me: Oh Yeah
Girl: Oh Baby

If I wanted to see that I'd watch Cinemax.

A world without emotions is just one gigantic cock block to the planet.

[Lien]

We'd all be like brainless zombies. :sad

[Luffy2692]

Life without emotions would be kinda boring because can you imagine what sex would be like?

Me: Oh Yeah
Girl: Oh Baby
Me: Oh Yeah
Girl: Oh Baby

If I wanted to see that I'd watch Cinemax.

A world without emotions is just one gigantic cock block to the planet.
ha ha! thats true AND hilarious. thats going in my sig

[Hatsune Miku]

We'd all be like brainless zombies. :sad


hahaha, that's true.

[The 21st Hokage]

Awesome glad you like it ;)

[Low-fi Boy]

The world would be a more efficient place, but lifeless and less enjoyable. Then again if we couldn't feel enjoyment, it wouldn't matter anyway.

[cube66]

Isn't it said that without emotions (regrets, anger, love, hate) there is peace? Peace is stillness and completeness, where everything is content, natural and simple.

How do you feel about this? Perhaps it's not emotions that kill peace, but our lack of control of our own self over our inner emotions.

[OniTasku]

I honestly would die without emotion.

[Takuza]

everyone would be dead very quikly. no one would fear for the life, so they would walk in the middle of roads, and no one would care about other peoples lives, so they would keep on driving. all we would have are the basic things we want in life, food and stuff, but we would end up eating posion sooner or later, because we wouldn't care WHAT food, just need food. so it would be boring, but only for a while, cause we would die soon after :)

[The Space Cowboy]

Well I think if we didn't have emotions, we probably wouldn't be human.
Just speaking biologically, many emotions are linked to situations in which we need them. Fear for example, is an excellent motivator.
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Human we are,
Confused bastards,
We hate, we love.
We heal, we kill.
The same hands that hug a baby
Can dash it against the floor.
It's just one of those things.
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You hit it on the head though--lack of self-control over emotions is a chronic problem the world over

[imchemist]

Life without emotions would be meaningless...all the choices we would make will be based on random binary system...and no one would be able to enjoy the "fruit of the labor"

There would be no art...no anime...and no NARUTO!!! That would be terrible.

[Sorano]

Life without emotions wouldn't be much of a life.

[shaolin kid]

a life without emocions, ...hmm, it would be like being bored all ur life, exeped boredom is an emocion... ...so, uh... ...huh?:huh

[Luffy2692]

having no emotions kinda loops around in circles to where you think about nothing, do nothing, say nothing, or desire nothing. we honestly would just rot away. also, there would be no emoticons!! oh no!

[rokkudaime]

if you had no emotions, you wouldnt even care if the world was a better place. you wont even feel happy that you are alive.

[Miss CCV]

I honestly think emotion is one of the crucial parts of life. Without it, our lives would be extremely dull. It's like every individual is dead emotionally. We would be lifeless, walking forms.

[mike_william]

Emotions aren't something that is magical. Emotions are basically just states that are used to described the way our mind responds to different scenarios.

Since our minds will always respond differently to the different situations around them, you can't have a mind without emotions. There could be one, technically, but it'd likely kill itself of almost immedietely, because if it doesn't react differently to the things around it it will surely die.

[Rocklee88]

without emotions, there'd be no forms of entertainment =(

[SasuRyu]

Life wouldn't really be life without emotions, as stated already we'd be like a bunch of zombies who wouldn't care what happened, its kinda scary to think about a life without such things as anger, happiness etc

[copyninja_kakashi]

life without emotions would suck

[therealultimatepower]

Well, in Star Trek, there is always an emotionless character. There are the Vulcans, the borg, Data, and various holograms. Ironically it's these emotionless beings that teach us more about our humanity through their misunderstandings of emotions. THe same goes for the Terminator when he gets lowered into the smelting pool. THat was the only time i cried in a movie...and it was because a robot died. But then again, this isn't Star Trek or Terminator.

But like someone said earlier, the absence of emotion is peace. So maybe we'd all be sitting around all day staring at clouds.

[louuster]

Life without emotions would be totally peaceful but also boring as hell so it has both good and bad sides.

[The Lotus Child]

So has anyone ever read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry? Well there it is a book about a world without emotions and color...

[War Machine]

But like someone said earlier, the absence of emotion is peace. So maybe we'd all be sitting around all day staring at clouds.
I'm inclined to agree with that.

[azn_sephiroth]

I guess we don't really lose anything heh?

[thewinterknight]

Emotions dicate humans' actions while instincts dicate animals' action. After all, humans are the ONLY species that smex out of pleasure not necessity. So, it would be a pretty dangerous place. (Hmmmm. What would the world be like if everyone were perfect?)

[cube66]

After all, humans are the ONLY species that smex out of pleasure not necessity.

Actually so do dolphins. :smile-big

[MechaTC]

this belongs in the philosophical forum. moving it there for you now

[Chamcham Trigger]

Life without emotions. Hmmmmm. Well many people believe that emotions go against logic, when in actuality they can go hand in hand. Emotions can cloud logic at times, but sometimes it's just logical to feel certain emotions, so I guess it would be a life with 50/50 logic.....or something like that.

[ShadowGal19]

I'm pretty sure a life without emotions would suck. We'd lose all respect for the beauty in our lives, never learn anything because we would have no drive to, etc. Our daily lives would wear-down to eating, sleeping and sex (the basics of survival), humans would just simple exist (or are we including other species in the world wide wipe out of emotions?). Or we would exist, until the predators came and ate us all because without fear we wouldn't run away or try to create defenses.

But if I lived in a world without emotion, I wouldn't care about these things.

On a side note:So has anyone ever read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry? Well there it is a book about a world without emotions and color...
I read part of it a few years ago when it was a decision for reading in literature class. I chose another book, but I remember a science class where we were talking about over population and someone said we should make it the job of only a few women to have children like in the Giver, from then on he was referred to as "Giver Boy" by our teacher.

[fuuki]

So has anyone ever read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry? Well there it is a book about a world without emotions and color...

yeah, i couldnt help but think of an emotionless world as a permanently gray place. there would be absolutley no progress as there is no desire for...anything at all.
can't help but imagine an emotionless person to a goldfish in goldfish bowl with only water and fish flakes around it.

[shizuru]

a world without emotions would be weired:blink everyone would the same in a way....

[Heartgobbler]

Instinctive bahaviour is also caused by emotions. Without emotions, we would have no motivation to do anything and simply die.

[monk3]

its hard to accomplish this. tried it. didnt work :P

[Chamcham Trigger]

its hard to accomplish this. tried it. didnt work :P
It's nearly impossible to do. Many people would like to think that they live their lives without using emotions, but they're just lying to themselves......Yeah I am one of those people as well sometimes.

Other people think that emotions only have to do with feelings of saddness and crying and stuff, that's also not true at all.

[EternalHatred]

Life without emotions is a life unlike other lives that ever lived.

[Luffy2692]

i read the giver. very strange book but it really made you think

[Eden Prime]

To me at least, life without emotion is death.

To me, Emotion is what makes life barable.

[chuggachugga]

Life without emotions is a perfect society because there are no disagreements

[Dommy]

if no one had any emotions, the world might be a better, or worse place. better, because no one would be sad, lonely, evil, etc. worse, because no one would feel satisfaction, love, happiness, etc. since alot of animals tend to have not as many emotions as humans, do you think it would be for the better or worse without them? explain (sounds like a school problem)

It may have its own advantages and disadvantages. :oh

[Kush P]

I think the world would exist but it would be too analytical...we would ruin great things like that feeling after watching a new awesome episode of Naruto, and not say a damn thing. People would still have sex but for the sole purpose reproduction, there wouldnt be great toe-curling love making, I think we would stare and analyze clouds and sky, but never try to paint it or realize that its beautiful. I think we would see life like a snap shots of photographs analyzing each of them, rather than watching it unfold like a movie in motion...We can survive without emotions but I think they are needed for a better understanding of life.

[Copyright]

Firstly are we talking about a world where there was never emotion to start with, or waking up tomorow with no emotion?

Either way it wouldnt really matter now that I've thought about it.

If there was never any emotion to begin with then it would just be the norm so whatever happened happened.

If we woke up tommorow with no emotions, then we wouldn't feel the loss as that would be an expression of emotion so...

It would probably make an ideal society, however it could never grow or evolve simply due to the fact you would just accept your surroundings with no desire to change or improve them.

[rimpelcut]

if no one had any emotions, the world might be a better, or worse place. better, because no one would be sad, lonely, evil, etc. worse, because no one would feel satisfaction, love, happiness, etc. since alot of animals tend to have not as many emotions as humans, do you think it would be for the better or worse without them? explain (sounds like a school problem)

you get emotions because of contracting muscles (fear,stress) or stimulation of the reproductive glands (happiness, orgasm). To make it short every emotion is because of your nerves and they are essential for you. That you get emotional is completely your own doing and it is ellusive for allot of people. Have you ever thought of why you are a slave of "want", why you are clinging to pain and joy. When you are thinking now about I don't want to do this or I hate to do that, what do you feel at that moment? You feel pain, discomfort. You see? You don't want discomfort but still you make it. This is because you are afraid to be afraid and therefore you create a cyclical effect.
If you think about discomfort: normal posture and no achings. If your leg is cut off it will feel like a orgasm going through your body. Pain because someone called you fat is complete non sense and is the result of thinking in the lines of good, bad feeling. When something painfull happens and I can tell you from experience since I have undergone unconcievable pain, you contract, you make it worse. Remember people saying: just ignore it.
But the question remains, but loco isn't discomfort bad? No it is not bad, it is simply in your way just like a pole in the middle of the road or the molecules in the air. Sometimes feeling relaxed and happy is in the way when you need to suddenly do fast labour.

As for the need of emotions: Pain is your bodies signal that you are about to die. If we did not have that we would not care about death. Really if you did not learn from very young that pain is not good, death is not good you wouldn't care. You would damage your body more often and unless you come to your senses and understand that there is a thing such as death and that it would be wise to remain alive the thought will never cross your mind to be conservative.

[CrazyMoronX]

People would develop gun skills, and sword skills, and kill eachother a lot when people displayed emotions on accident. That is, if we are forced to conceal emotions.

I guess, if we just didn't have them it would be different.

It would be pretty boring, I guess... though I don't have too many emotions as it is, and I manage ok.

I'd say life would suck, the planet would suck, and everyone would commit suicide.

[rimpelcut]

All the people that said life would suck: you don't have emotions, it won't suck. The reason that you say it will suck is because you have ideas of emotions now.
Also if there are no emotions of bad and no emotions of good then if you didn't have emotions you would always be happy!

[Paracetamol Boy]

Life without emotions would be pointless, since our goals, motives and what we believe in are decided from our emotions (love, insecurity, hate etc.). Therefore we would be a bunch of nihilists with no reason to exist.

[rimpelcut]

no actually it would be the same as life now only more dynamic and productive. you will still be playing soccer. A bacteria lives just fine. Just like that we would life and when we encounter a resistence, a problem just like we do in life today we would confront it, do something about it only without sulking. If you find having life without emotions pointless, what do you think of your lifes now, everyday seeking dildo's to "feel" until you are insensative to feeling. Running away from problems. Trying to find knowledge for no real purpose except trying to find meaning to your life(wow contradicting).
No I would say not because of emotions but because of your false perseption of emotions life is without meaning and a sorry pile of crap. It's like you life everyday just to pick up a stone and place it upon a mountain and you call this life a life full of "choice" and meaning. Well yeah if you consider choosing whitch mountain is the highest a choice of importance. That importance then comes from you giving the precedure of placing a stone on a mountain a meaning of life. Where as that meaning of life is of great meaning because you never thought about anything else from the day you where born then placing a stone on a mountain.

Our motives are driven by interrest in the world. If you see something you investigate not because of emotions or desire but simply because it is a new terretorium. There is however the need to eat and protect your body and this would be the same as emotions. Therefore I would say that you cannot go without this desire to eat, it is necessary for living. But emotions are not what give meaning to our lives. The very word meaning implies feeling. You could say therefore that because we live our meaning in life is to live. I feel that we are not talking about what would life be if we did not have the desire to eat because that would mean that we would have no desire to life. So we are talking here about emotions like joy and sarrow whitch I already explained above is the same as eating, protecting your body etc. The reason we see emotions as important is because people are addicted to it. This controversially makes you scared of exams while the very reason you have emotions is to overcome problems and yet people are constantly afraid about something and do nothing about it. This is because they identify themself with pain and joy while it is not true. You exist without pain or joy until you experience true pain in the form of injury. In that existence without pain and joy there is no emptyness and no joy but fullness. Whitch is not worse then joy or better.

[Paracetamol Boy]

But why would you want to place the stone on the mountain? If you were born with it, you would question it one day. And unless you had a satisfying answer, you would not do it.

On a completely unrelated note, you would have friends or family because you wouldn't perceive them as such, nor would you need them. Technically you wouldn't be brought up because your 'parents' will see no reason to do so (most parents do it out of 'love').

[Peliqua]

I guess it wouldn't be that bad. It'd be a lot 'safer' in the nobody would be able to piss anybody else off... but it'd leave the world kind of bare. We'd have to bae all decisions on logic rather than our own preferences. It would work, and it'd be safe, but sometimes following one's heart is the best thing to do, and without emotions, that's impossible.
What about other things, like wishes and hopes? They wouldn't exist either, without emotion. All that would be necessary without emotion would be to survive (food, shelter, etc)... just existing. That's not enough for me.

[~ Masamune ~]

Which movie was it when no one had emotions etc...Equilibrium right^^

[skunkworks]

That's the catch, without emotions life is vain.

[snake1786]

I think there would be no war but the life would suck.

[rimpelcut]

But why would you want to place the stone on the mountain? If you were born with it, you would question it one day. And unless you had a satisfying answer, you would not do it.

On a completely unrelated note, you would have friends or family because you wouldn't perceive them as such, nor would you need them. Technically you wouldn't be brought up because your 'parents' will see no reason to do so (most parents do it out of 'love').

Ah that is the problem. People don't question it. Did you?
Also those parents would take care of you because they made children for a reason, because they saw the opposite sex witch where different from them, felt that they need to stick something in a hole, reproduced and the child needed to be nurtured like they where. It is true that sex is a emotion and that love arrises because the child is their own and therefore special but without those things we would not life, we would not exist. Just like a plant would die if he didn't live. So Life without this program would not be. With humans there are other things that drive them except needing to eat which is curiosity only not the greedy kind.

[rimpelcut]

Which movie was it when no one had emotions etc...Equilibrium right^^

That movie didn't make sense because if there would be no desires people would simply stop eating and die so there was a person that controlled everyone.

[rimpelcut]

I think emotions are part of the bodily feeling sense and it enables us to know when we need to eat and put our hands of the hot kettle. It is essential for living but all of you think of emotions in terms of like dislike whitch has nothing to do with your will because your will is primarely driven by external things like what is happening around you, exploration and such. Animals don't really have that because they spend most of their time eating and sleeping but humans do have that time and are therefore more intelligent.

[Paracetamol Boy]

No, that's not right. Emotions is what how we react to certain situations and people. The need to eat, breathe and procreate is instinct. We were born with it. Removing ones hand from a hot kettle is also the instinct of self-protection. Although self-protection is used to preserve one's life and if we didn't have emotions we wouldn't see the point of living. But I digress.

[rimpelcut]

Well tell me then what emotions are.
I can tell you from experience that emotions are created by yourself because you program your mind to react to things that are stated as happy and things that are stated as bad. That bad and happy feeling comes from you controlling your body. There are things like hormones that give emotion and in that respect it is the same as eating and feeling the hotness of a kettle.

[RockLee]

As for the need of emotions: Pain is your bodies signal that you are about to die. If we did not have that we would not care about death. Really if you did not learn from very young that pain is not good, death is not good you wouldn't care. You would damage your body more often and unless you come to your senses and understand that there is a thing such as death and that it would be wise to remain alive the thought will never cross your mind to be conservative.

Actually, pain isn't an emotion, it's a bodily reaction. It doesn't actually count as an emotion.

I can't belive nobody has said it yet. There was a case about a life without emotions. There was a man who lost his hypothalamus (spell check? XD) and lost his emotions. This case was in the 1940's.

The man was a successful lawyer and had a stable marriage. However, he had a brain tumor and during the operation the doctors mistakenly cut the hypothalamus. So all his emotions were wiped out.

The result? Without emotions, he could not make any decisions. He'd analyze every decision to death, but could never settle on anything. He lost his job and his wife, and lost everything.

The conclusion? Emotions are a vital part of our lives, a part that helps you make everyday, simple decisions. So without emotions, we'd suffer from analysis paralysis.

That's it.

[rimpelcut]

uhh maybe that guy just went crazy. If he doesn't have emotions then he wouldn't make analyses? He wouldn't do anything?

Also you are right to say that without this hormones live cannot be. Howcome fear is considered a emotion while it is triggered by an idea you create. Also you can trigger adrenaline.

[GOD'S BITCH]

can't imagine life without emotions? Read Brave New World or The Anthem.

[rimpelcut]

and what does it say?

[Razgriez]

I guess it would be like being a computer.