A trans friend called this immediate backlash the "trans outrage machine," backlash from people who respond emotionally without rational consideration, who don't stop to think of the context or what their goal actually is.
Frequently, those most invested in pursuing this route are the least physically able to evangelise widely, and when the debate becomes so personally relevant, any argument risks being dismissed as too emotionally biased for rational debate.
Using data from card shows, he showed that traders became more rational — less emotionally tied to the cards they owned — as they accumulated more experience.
What is your reaction to the claim that religion is "a conversation stopper" that should be kept out of political debates because it appeals to emotionally powerful convictions beyond rational examination?
"When you communicate with a group you only know through electronic channels, it's like having functional Asperger's Syndrome — you are very logical and rational, but emotionally brittle," Professor Shirky said.
Functional neuroimaging studies of subjects making moral judgments have demonstrated distinct patterns of brain activation in situations in which moral outcomes are rational versus emotionally favorable, findings consistent with a care-justice typology of moral behavior [2], [17].
Parents often blame "teenagers" and portray them as irrational and "moody" or argumentative, but this in itself reflects their (parents') inability to be rational or emotionally disengaged: they see the reasoned arguments of the teenager not as valid intellectual difference but as a violent and PERSONAL affront to their beliefs and values.
As Drew Westen argued a few years ago in his book "The Political Mind", political persuasion is all about moving people emotionally, not appealing to their rational faculties.
On the one hand, we often forget how hard it is to be rational when we are emotionally charged about something, and that rational evidence never convinces anyone (even ourselves) when we are riled up.
Psychologists who study decision-making typically use terms like "fast" and "slow" and "hot" and "cold" to distinguish a snap, emotionally driven process from one that is rational and analytic.
