This is the thread that most comes to mind, but it’s not the only one
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Like right here, above, instead of addressing the emotions, you want us to understand where they come from. You can’t change your emotions by knowing that come from body-brain. If you are found to have a chemical imbalance, sure, you can get a prescription. Or if you are self-medicating, you could change that. But if you have experienced a great loss or trauma of some kind, you need to talk about that, or balance it with some positive experiences. Or in the case of trying to shift someone’s thinking on abortion or climate change, it can help to listen to what’s going on in their life, the stresses that they think are a priority.
I have literally said that, more than once. You said a bunch of stuff that I didn’t respond to because they weren’t on the point I was trying to get to. Maybe I should have quoted your phrase before that one, “we are not rational beings”. You were framing this as an either/or and I pointed out the statement that this is about our “capacity” to be rational. You seem to agree it’s about rationality and emotions, the mix, but you want to make this an argument, so you pick out something, misstate it, and start one of your lectures.