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RE: "I Got Downvoted!?! It's Not Fair! Can You Help Me???"
Our emotional responses are not based in mathematical logic, but on more primitive systems evolved to ensure our survival.
Not that I am an expert at this Luke, but this is social behavior, not math, and yes, occasionally it's quite irrational.
Ask yourself, as a species, do we want to increase irrationality or rationality if our goal is to increase human well being?
Regardless of our emotions, the math doesn't change or lie. The math drives this blockchain. We can rage against it, but it won't be changed. I'm simply suggesting we move forward and evolve our more primitive, survival-based emotions to be a little more subject to the control of reason. It can be done, but it takes self-awareness, practice, meditation, education, and more.
I'm a reason-oriented person, and math played a big role in my life. Today it seems to have emerged a paradigm shift in which EQ plays a higher role than IQ, because our capacity to interact is basically determined by EQ and not by IQ. So emotions and the capacity to interpret them in others are very important in a highly social culture online and offline, and they don't have to be about raging against something.
Otherwise I agree, sometimes we need to take a step back, take a breath and analyze things unemotionally, based on logic. We rarely take the time to do that these days and are driven in a "talk first and think later" scenario.