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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 671175" data-attributes="member: 812">Forgive me if I said your readers get to decide what your emotional state was. I should have said they get to decide the emotional content of your writing. I have nothing to say about your emotional state.Well, the last thing I can find that you said on the subject was:Why not? I'm sorry, but I can't find among your posts any sort of "well spelled out" description of the problem with this philosophy. I find that you consider the ability to ignore pain potentially harmful since pain sends us important signals about what's happening to our body. Well and good, but not really the point since jgbrowning was talking about emotional responses more than physical responses. You made an analogue to this with an emotional situation where the fact that interacting with someone produces bad feelings in you indicates that you should no longer interact with them.So is it that you are saying that learning to control one's emotions and take responsibility for them might lead to people hanging out with those who are rude to them? Or is it that you think that avoiding people who say things we don't want to hear is an important part of a healthy society? I doubt either is the case but I cannot determine what you might actually be trying to say.So I guess once again we come to the point that you don't get to decide what is "well spelled out" -- your readers do.</blockquote>