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Are emotions rational or irrational?

One can have both rational and irrational reasons to get emotional. But emotions themself are expressions of something.

Stoic Teacher
1 min readApr 18, 2022
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* They are neither rational nor irrational, it’s your reaction to said emotions that gives them characteristics

* No, emotions impair rational thought. In some circumstances, it can be reasonable to react with emotion. However, the emotion itself emerges from the gut, not the logical mind.

* rational, but the action resulted by the emotion is irrational

* Emotions just are. The reaction one has can be rational or irrational.

* Depends on how you interpret a feeling being felt at the moment.

* One can have both rational and irrational reasons to get emotional. But emotions themself are expressions of…

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