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Are people as emotional as they say they are?


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Rass kinda triggered this question. Though I'm starting to think that people aren't nearly as emotional as they claim to be, they exaggerate what they think and feel to conform to what they think society expects of them. Look at the outrage over some guy who pees on a tree, and some kid accidently sees him,  gets shown. He's declared a sexual predator and thrown on a list, declared a demon and given a scarlet letter. Because We must save The Children!

And then people who like drama, feed this pretending to be butthurt, when in reality, they don't give a shit, they just want to stir the kettle. And what do you get? The mainstream media news here in the states. By the way, we interrupt this unimportant NSA story to bring you breaking important news, Justin Bieber just got arrested for.... (yawns you know they did that to annoy those that are fed up with the MSM).

And people claim to be all attached and in love with people, but yet, women mainly still date for financial stability, and men to father offspring and feed their urges. Yet they claim its for love, and any other reason is wrong. All because society wants us individuals to claim we're so run on our emotions, as much as possible, so that the official demons and us are clearly distinguished. There can be no grey area in anything.

If you want to find something that annoys me, this about society is. And the inability for most people to do introspection and to think critically, and to know themselves very well, to know that what they call their personality/sense of self/etc... is just them trying to add up to whatever they identify as. Just look at all the sociology experiments that show the gaps in what people think about themselves, versus the way they actually are. This is proof.

 

Okay, so this question has turned into a rant. :D

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Are people as emotional as they say they are?

Good post. Unfortunately, I don't have the time right now to give a decent answer :'(

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Are people as emotional as they say they are?

No. People use fake or exagerrated emotions to play games and manipulate the hell out of other people all the time. Especially women do that.

And yeah, mass media does that a lot too. They try to hype up the emotional aspect of things to get higher ratings.

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Are people as emotional as they say they are?

The media markets the news as a combination package of information and entertainment. With multiple channels running 24 hours, the quality is watered down so the information is rarely relevant and the entertainment is rarely entertaining.

Being offended is a way to bond with other people who are offended. It turns social justice work into socializing rather than work.

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Are people as emotional as they say they are?

Yes. People can be emotional as they say.

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Are people as emotional as they say they are?

It's a dog eat dog world, and people typically employ trickery, be it toward others or toward themselves, to live in such a place.

Many will claim what they do or feel wrongly for their own sakes more than for others, and may even very well believe it.

Truth is subjective.

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