On 1 February 2012 08:49, Amon Zero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amon@doctrinezero.com">amon@doctrinezero.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 1 February 2012 00:10, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com" target="_blank">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
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If we got rid of depression, anger, sadness, melancholy, fatigue,<br>
bitchiness, sarcasm, fear, inattentiveness, frustration, boredom and<br>
all the other wonderful negative emotions, could you really call what<br>
you ended up with human in any sense of the word?<br>
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So what is lost if we reach a state of paradise on earth? Everything.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>As much as I agree that we'd have to be extremely careful when "engineering out" evolutionarily adaptive emotions (such as disgust), from my point of veering </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Point of view, even! Apologies.</div></div>