Comment Re:Cholera (Score 1) 233
That is such a nice and concise description of the way emotional people "think".
We all fall somewhere on the spectrum of fully rational to purely emotional. Also, a person probably has little control over where they fall; the nature part surely, and the nurture part happening mostly before they have any influence over it.
Unfortunately when a highly emotional person reads your description, they are not going to have some light go off in their head and go "now I get it, what a fool I've been!" Only a small percentage of people are convertible like that, because they have to already be close enough to some rational threshold on the spectrum to have a chance. (People who manage to think themselves out of religious indoctrination are another example.)
A lot of what we see happening now is the result of machiavellian types using technology to exploit a big chunk of that spectrum. We seem to have crossed a point of no return where a critical mass of humanity has become fully programmable.
