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I ask this question because in my last French exam (I'm French educated) we had a text and some questions. The text was a part of The Iliads when Priam, king of the trojans, begged Achilles, a Greek general and all around bad-***, for the body of his dead son, Hector. The last question of the exam was related to the paragraph in which Achilles and Priam cry together after Priam's heartfelt speech. When my teacher was distributing the exams, she was irritated by a peculiar girl who had written for that question that the crying of Achilles made him week. The teacher explained to the girl how he wasn't week and etc.
Personally, I think crying isn't a sign of weakness. I consider it as a sign of a person being human. If a person never cried and never had an once of sadness in him then we wouldn't be human; he would be a sort of happy-bot designed to be happy 24/7. That or the person is really dull, boring and doesn't have any emotion what so ever. How could you be happy without sadness to compare it to?
I also think crying never solved anything, well in the long-run anyway. I understand a quick cry-on-the-shoulder to get you're emotions strait, but when you spend all day weeping you end up not doing nothing instead of solving the problem in which you're weeping for and you eventually fell worse.
controlling your emotions and not showing them is different. one could be sad but not cry. one can be sad, not show it, and then cry when he is alone. when you dont feel sadness its not controll, its insensitivity. and if someone is afraid of feeling sad then that does make him weak
Why? Aren't emotions considered what make humans humans? Without emotion we would all only be organic robots. So why do you consider them all a weakness?
No, I believe logic and reason are what makes humans what we are. I don't see a benefit in any emotion; in fact, they are rather inhibiting, frequently overriding reason. Quite ironically, I've been to the point of tears wishing I could sacrifice all emotion for greater intelligence.
have you seen the movie where all humans take drugs to live without emotions?
emotions are not a sign of weaknes, it is a sign of humanity. if you see a poor man with one leg and one arm, would you give him some money or food so he gets something to eat or would you to go past him, not noticing him?
No I do not believe it is. I see it as what makes us human and that one might just be going through tough times that they do not think anyone understands.
No, I believe logic and reason are what makes humans what we are. I don't see a benefit in any emotion; in fact, they are rather inhibiting, frequently overriding reason. Quite ironically, I've been to the point of tears wishing I could sacrifice all emotion for greater intelligence.
I actualy was training myself to not show or have emotion, but when I was about to get rid of it all completly, I thought to myself "But I still wanna laugh", so I gave up on completly shutting out emotion, but I haven't had any extream emotions after I did that so it still kinda worked also I learned how to not show emotion after that.
