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Feelings are not weak
When someone tries to weaponised logic over feelings they inherently fall into the trap of assuming their personal logic is both reasonable and an answer the problem at hand. All attempts at logic are based on the personal assumption that they understand how the world works and that their personal abstraction of logic is the only explanation for the way something is. What those who wield logic forget is that while an abstraction works in a vacuum, reality is inherently illogical, messy, and defies complete explanation. This is especially true when you consider that all humans are thinking feeling beings who move through the world based on their personal motivations and understanding of the world at large.
This bears repeating. There is nothing logical about the human condition. We are all a bundle of complex contradictions, our personal moralities and ethics based on the lessons we absorb as we grow and learn. It is no more possible to divorce a person from their emotional core than it is to remove our beating hearts. To be emotional, to have feelings, is at the centre of the human condition. Which is why it is impossible to separate out our sense of self and self-understanding from the world at large. Descartes tries to do this with cartesian dualism, seeing the mind in abstract from a logical body, yet the reality is that as embodied humans we use our senses to fill the emotions that are some embedded…
