People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Logic and Emotions are the interplay of the human function; yet which drives what is under question in this essay. The prompt states that people who make decisions based on their emotional drives and try to justify them with logic are poor decision makers. I agree with the above statement for the following three reasons.
To begin with, in any matter whether matters of state, family or social, we need sound logic, thinking and a well structured decision making process. Such a process cannot be driven by emotions; our emotions control our sentiments that tend to render us vulnerable and usually unable to take neither sound nor logical decisions especially in crisis or in times of need. For instance, rulers of state such as Winston Churchill, did not depend on his emotional drive while deciding how to end World War II and relief England of its misery. Nor did Roosevelt, when he had to take on of the hardest decisions of his life and to drag the USA to one of the most viscous wars of all lifetime. Yet his decision saved humanity...If these political figures had depended on their emotions they might have balked or taken a different path. The course of history might have changed forever.
Moreover, decision making is a complex process on all levels and is manipulated by many and all. We encounter this process in our daily lives, at home, at work and on the streets. If we are to allow our emotions to be the functional drive of this complex process, I believe that humanity will have a lot of problems. A simple household example will magnify such a problem; dealing with children and their misconduct. Usually parents opt for grounding, discipline, lack of privileges and other different tracks; however, when the factor of emotions gets into play, the parent will likely subdue to the child and the rules will eventually bend. This simple example is a reflection of a problem that can happen in any different context.
People of all levels need sound judgement, and logical thinking in order to make decisions. However, when these do not come into play we are bound to encounter major problems and these problems differ in nature depending on the level of the person taking the decisions. For instance, if we go back in history and remember Hitler and his fanaticism no one can deny that he was a leader who was driven by his fanatic emotional drive to rule the world and cleanse it. His emotions were his guidance definitely not logic or sound judgement.
Finally, I believe that we have a gift of the brain to think and evaluate the decisions that we face everyday. We need emotions to balance that brain and makes more human. It is after all a combination of the two, but the usage of each in its correct place is the key to success!
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 577, Rule ID: ON_OF_THE[2]
Message: Did you mean 'one'?
Suggestion: one
... Nor did Roosevelt, when he had to take on of the hardest decisions of his life an...
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Line 2, column 720, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: If
...time. Yet his decision saved humanity...If these political figures had depended on...
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Line 5, column 102, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...and evaluate the decisions that we face everyday. We need emotions to balance that brain...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, moreover, so, well, while, after all, for instance, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2286.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 484.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72314049587 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49390350159 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520661157025 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 727.2 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.9312217588 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.909090909 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59090909091 5.21951772744 88% => 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 : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.219356321189 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0677832127568 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0802535115192 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144947702392 0.150359130593 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.122811995166 0.0667264976115 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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