viernes, 16 de noviembre de 2012

Emotionless State- Reason, Language and Emotions


Happiness, sadness, rage, terror are all emotions that we experience on our daily lives. Sometimes, this emotions controls us and blocks our reason and knowledge, but yet, humans dont know how to live without emotions and often display them to others in an overly exagerated way.

When we think of how essential emotions are to us, we start to believe that they are what makes us human and in perfect correlation we unite this two and find that we don't comprehend what is being without emotions or moral judgement.

I found an interesting story or more of a character that implements this idea of being without emotions and this is Kazuo Kiriyama from a novel called "Battle Royale." To understand this character, we must first see a very basic summary of the novel. The novel is about a group of teenagers which are assigned by a totalitarian government (located in Asia) to kill each other until only one is left as a form of research by the government. The character i'm writing about, Kazuo Kiriyama, suffered from a great trauma which damaged his capacity to process basic human emotions ,especially those of empathy and remorse, making him a perfect candidate of this killing game but he was also very intelligent as he was capable of learning anything extremely fast and mastering it, but due to his lack of emotions he found that he didn't care about this nor found a reason to continue and so utterly discarted them.
 
This example clearly shows how emotions can be related with judgement and with reason, also this affects the way we communicate and see the world, refering back to Kazuo Kiriyama, he didn´t found a reason to talk and prefered to act with reason and since he found himself without emotions, had to act with reason. The way he talked and the language he used was always centered into the main point without using any terms such as I or believe. No one trully understood him and only had friends for his own benefit not the emotional fact of having a friend.

In conclusion, being in an emotionless state trully affects your way of seeing the world and understanding it, it also affects the way you communicate with others and your moral judgement. Finally it can free you from many moral judgments, yet it can make your language less effective as you no longer feel sympathetic towards other people as you don't understand how they feel and therefore no longer relate to them.  

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