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Is it possible to show people who put feelings before thoughts that they should keep things under control without personally learning from experience what it's like to endure luck getting pushed against them, or are people who put feelings before thoughts hopeless?
To be clear, the argument I'd make that emotionally judgmental people are hopeless until learning from personal experience is as follows:
Some ideas make sense unto themselves. Other ideas only make sense compared to other ideas.
These ideas are necessary. Those ideas are possible.
These ideas which are necessary happen in advance. Those ideas which are possible happen afterwards.
These ideas which happen in advance are abstract before they're realized. Those ideas which make sense when compared are concrete upon realization.
Psychologically, this which is abstract is inside our minds. That which is concrete is beyond our minds.
What's inside our minds is within our control. What's beyond our minds is out of our control.
We control what we start to think about although we don't control how thoughts conclude such as controlling to think about what 1+1 equals but not controlling how 1+1=2.
We don't control what we feel about although we do control how we respond to those feelings such as not controlling whether we like how apple pie tastes but as controlling whether to eat apple pie.
Therefore, emotionally judgmental people must (unfortunately) learn from experience the hard way about luck.
Even then, a single experience might not be convincing enough. Emotionally judgmental people often need to endure repeated experiences before becoming convinced.
To be clear, I don't like this argument. I actually find it rather disconcerting because it suggests the only way to convince emotionally judgmental people of something is to either spoil them or traumatize them. Spoiling people destroys the self-respect of the spoiler. Traumatizing someone destroys the self-respect of the traumatized. The only way this could be avoided is if multiple emotionally judgmental people who are incompatible are compelled to endure each other such that they learn to cooperate or else.
To be clear, the argument I'd make that emotionally judgmental people are hopeless until learning from personal experience is as follows:
Some ideas make sense unto themselves. Other ideas only make sense compared to other ideas.
These ideas are necessary. Those ideas are possible.
These ideas which are necessary happen in advance. Those ideas which are possible happen afterwards.
These ideas which happen in advance are abstract before they're realized. Those ideas which make sense when compared are concrete upon realization.
Psychologically, this which is abstract is inside our minds. That which is concrete is beyond our minds.
What's inside our minds is within our control. What's beyond our minds is out of our control.
We control what we start to think about although we don't control how thoughts conclude such as controlling to think about what 1+1 equals but not controlling how 1+1=2.
We don't control what we feel about although we do control how we respond to those feelings such as not controlling whether we like how apple pie tastes but as controlling whether to eat apple pie.
Therefore, emotionally judgmental people must (unfortunately) learn from experience the hard way about luck.
Even then, a single experience might not be convincing enough. Emotionally judgmental people often need to endure repeated experiences before becoming convinced.
To be clear, I don't like this argument. I actually find it rather disconcerting because it suggests the only way to convince emotionally judgmental people of something is to either spoil them or traumatize them. Spoiling people destroys the self-respect of the spoiler. Traumatizing someone destroys the self-respect of the traumatized. The only way this could be avoided is if multiple emotionally judgmental people who are incompatible are compelled to endure each other such that they learn to cooperate or else.