[Catwoman]

Troubleshooter: Emotion is a very real response to a stimulus. Regardless of of the subjectivity of that emotion, it is real. Fear, for instance is a salient responce to danger. Anger is a response to fear or danger.

I agree. The fight or flight mechanism, stimulated by fear, is probably our most valuable survival instinct. And the 'reality' of any given emotion can only be ascribed by the individual, not dictated by an external party.

A couple of people have got a little bit confused, thinking I am attacking their emotions. I don't care what you feel. It is your subjective (real to you) emotion and this should never dictate action, be it YOUR action or the action of the state. Imagine if you went through life taking all your emotions to their logical conclusions. You would have slept with (and impregnated) every woman you found attractive, have married every guy you thought you loved, and murdered everyone who stimulated that most potent of emotions: fear. You would kill them because they are a threat to you or your family. Every killing is an act of self defense - you are eliminating a threat. Survival of the fittest. What goes through the mind of a murderer? The man who kills his wife and kids because she had an affair and the pain is too much to bear: the kids are a reminder. The woman who kills her lifelong abuser because there's no other escape. It's all self-preservation, taken to its psychopathic extreme.

I do not advocate ANY killing. NO ONE has the right to kill. There are no exceptions. We are the only species that kill each other en masse. We are the only species who are aware of our own inevitable death and we are the only species that knowingly commit suicide. No surprise then that many of us escape to insanity. If one can reject immediate emotional gratification in favour of rational, objective, effective action, then maybe we can begin to evolve from our inhumanity.