On: Keep Your Identity Small

[immad]

"identity gives you strength while making you stupid"

Couldn't something similar be said about any emotional response. In that emotional responses give you something but are inherently irrational.

[bdr → immad]

You could also see emotion as heuristic behavior guides that were calculated by evolution. Many decisions are so computationally complex that reasoning isn't useful.

[billswift → immad]

I'd say strong emotion makes you stupid. Emotional responses in general I think are more non-rational than necessarily irrational.