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Are we a slave to our emotions?
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You Must Control Your Emotions
As far back as the ancient greeks, it's been a thing that you are supposed to closely guard and control your feelings. Ands it's a big thing in philosophy that there's this ideas you must control your emotions. You must. They are somehow harmful to you if you keep hem even now. The very fact you've come to a view on this means you feel something about it. We've done the science. We've shown that you can't make a decision without a feeling. Yet philosophers persist in trying to separate these things. If it worked like that, then we'd have gone extinct a long time ago,. cause we wouldn't have run away from the bear in
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