Do you agree or disagree with the following statement,"People who make decisions based on emotion and justify them later are bad decision makers"

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement,
"People who make decisions based on emotion and justify them later are bad decision makers"

Emotions play a huge part in our day-to-day lives, our motivations, beliefs and in forming associations. Some people even dictate their actions based on these emotions. I agree with the statement that people who make decisions based on emotion and justify them with logic later are poor decision makers.

Crimes are often fuelled by emotions. Hate crimes, honour killings, crimes of passion, et cetera are generally the outcome of acting based on one's emotion without logically evaluating their action. Let's take for example a man who was recently divorced, in his heat of emotions, he decided to damage his ex wife's property. Even though in a calm state of mind, he might have never done so.

People in the society have a tendency to not see themselves as a villain or as a bad person. This effect can be seen when people who make bad decisions based on their emotions, justify it in whatever way possible. For example, a person, during a verbal fight, said things that she should not have said, might not want to feel guilty and thus justify her actions in her own mind. The same applies for people who might commit crimes and these justifications are what would make a person repeat those crimes and disable them from feeling guilt when they actually should.

Justifying emotions works well to calm ourselves but it doesn't change the situation or the outcome. The harm done won't change simply because we've justified it afterwards. A person who is hurt because of us, will not recover simply because we have justified our actions. Logically evaluating a decision thus holds importance. It allows people to evaluate whether a decision is reasonable and practical. Logical evaluations after an action make it biased towards justifying it.

Sometimes, logic might in fact be based on emotion. Even then, I feel one should take out the time to logically evaluate the situation as well. This is because logic brings us closer to decision making that allows for a better sense of understanding of the outcome of our actions.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, so, then, thus, well, for example, i feel, in fact

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 58.6224719101 63% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 343.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92711370262 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.55969084622 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54870865683 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.568513119534 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 704.065955056 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.0952303897 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.5 118.986275619 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.15 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.45 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272507849645 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0853043355297 0.0831039109588 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11980079802 0.0758088955206 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159671747411 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.113522040223 0.0667264976115 170% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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