Another Good Reason to be a Christian

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That's OK No problem. I'm always happy to be challenged. I hope I have not tried to claim to be 100% logical, I'm well aware I am fallible and I'm always happy for this to be pointed out. And I'm sure some people are way better at logic than me, I'm just some rank amateur who considers himself relatively hard wired for logical thinking. I also have plenty of emotions, which are going to have to interact with logic. I hope I can analyse such interactions well, but there's always room for improvement.

Indeed, if you are nothing but logic, that would logically lead (ahah) to the "robot" scenario. But at some point, you have to decide what is valuable and what is not, to decide what your end goals are. And that is going to depend how you value emotions in this case.

So others may well come to different conclusions, and I don't claim mine to be definitive. I try and own my opinions as much as possible. Apologies if I miss out this part now and again.

I'll share an example of my emotions being irrational. When I even think about certain things, I can get really emotional, to the point of crying, and I don't know why. I can only guess at some sort of link to my childhood. These can be things like the lyrics to "Teddy Bear's Picnic" or the show "Bagpus". I'm welling up with tears just writing this for fucks sake! Even when the story is happy, as in both of these cases, I still feel very mixed emotions and a kind of sadness I cannot identify. It's quite overwhelming. Anything involving animals, or non-human "life" seem to get me the most, although some human stories can get me as well. I wonder if it is my desire to protect innocent and vulnerable creatures, which is so intense as to extend to fictional ones that aren't even in any present "danger".