Are Reason And Emotion Equally Necessary In Justifying Moral Decision

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This essay will explore the effects that emotions and reason have on our decision-making. I will be exploring the relationship between reason and emotion and which one of these brain process domain in our moral decision-making. We like human posses many different types of emotions like for example sadness, anger, joy, happiness etc. these emotions are inseparable part of our everyday life. These different emotions effect our actions and responses to stimulants. If person is experiencing deep feelings of happiness his response to somebody mocking him would be totally different than if he would be depressed or angry. Emotions help us to make quick decisions by quickly assessing the situation we are in, and providing us with a response that may seem as most rational at that time. Emotions were firstly developed I animals for the achievement of survival, because they tell us how to response in certain situations, like for example that if you are scared you should run and your body knows that if you are scared it should increase blood flow to the heart and brain and decrease blood flow to the less necessary parts of your body. We could say that even thou emotion is very important it is quite easy process compared to reasoning which involves bigger brain activity. Before we start to be emotional we don’t asses all the pros and cons of our action we just do it because it seems like a right thing to do at that time. We could say that emotions have different intensities like for example when you are experiencing the emotion of anger you could be a little angry like when somebody eats your chocolate but you could also be boiling with rage because your boyfriend cheated on you. And therefore we can say that the stronger the intensity of the emotion, the less reasoning would be involved the actions. In the first example when your room made eats your chocolates you

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