The question fits the moment after the German refusal to vote in favor of allied military intervention in Libya, the government's pullout from nuclear energy largely for reasons of emotion and domestic political calculation, and its willingness last week to put off possibly decisive steps to end Greece's debt misery.
The reason for this emotion-related elevation in false alarms is not clear, although it could be associated with the greater potential importance of mistaking real threats as being imaginary ("better safe than sorry").
Hence it is able to specify the location of pain or give reasons for its emotion, for it can explain that a dog bites, and, hence, why it wants to run away.
The reason for the welling emotion is that Rose, introduced here as running Buck's of Belgravia, an employment agency for household help, goes back to what had been her home for 40 years and, after having staffed the refurbished residence out of her financially uncertain business, is prevailed upon to reinstall herself as head housekeeper.
They do so for the reason that emotion in general, and care in particular, have been ignored or denigrated in traditional moral theory due to their association with women.
In other words, we see our opponents' minds — their capacity for reason, emotion, thought and desire — as less sophisticated than our own minds, a phenomenon my colleagues and I have termed the lesser minds problem.
Much as we'd love for reason and emotion to work together, they seem to diverge and hamper good decision-making.
A text message just doesn't cut it, Ms. Madden said, for the simple reason that conveying emotion in digital formats is a lost cause.
A few extreme shrills want war and know that time and conversation will allow for evidence and reason to trump emotion and hysteria.
But for some reason, the emotion has gone to another level this year, and it has started a sequence of ugly events that have transpired in a short time in the first round.
For this reason, any emotion is deemed to have a negative influence on the individual.
