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This is a question that I have never thought of asking before I answered it for myself.
For years i have been struggling to free myself from the control of my own emotions. A short fuse runs in my family and i have seen family members, other people, and my self do irrational things because of this emotional influence. I had come to the conclusion that using logical, rational, scientific thinking produced better results in my life and abiding to the whims of my emotions got me in trouble. So for years I trained myself to accept mistakes and learn from them and to step back, acknowledge the feeling, and compare what it is telling me to do to what makes logical sense. This kind of thinking changed all kinds of things in my life and opened up more opportunities to grow as a human being. I was no longer an angry person. When something bad happened i was already ten steps ahead of my former self on solving the problem instead of wasting time on having a hissy fit. Most of the stress just melted away. I applied this to many other emotions and got similar results.

Eventually i got around to putting this "be like a robot" philosophy to the test of a broader spectrum. I thought about how far this could be taken and found out that if I was able to become one hundred percent logical and totally remove emotion. I would cease to live. I would become nothing more than a stone. I would do nothing. For something to function, it would have to have a purpose. Robots maybe emotionless but do have a purpose which is given to them by a human being.

I have my own ideas about what the difference between "living" and "nonliving" is but for simplicity sake and not going on a tangent sake, all living things have a single common fundamental purpose. It is simply to exist, abiding by the rules of the universe. All living things have to multiply to remain in existence and this brings into play social interactions which requires rules like don't kill each other because that could make us extinct. A human being's lack in physical prowess compared to other animals is made up by our ability to learn and use the scientific process to further our species. All living things, that can learn, use the scientific process to aid in existence but humans can take this beyond the few steps that a mouse can foresee. All that humans know about living, surviving and cooperating can't be rediscovered in a single life time so these things need to be taught to us and we don't have much of a choice but to accept them. This is simply because one person can't go back and check the science on every little thing that is taught. Anyways this passing down of rules is what ideology is. An ideology has an ultimate goal that is shared by the people who subscribe to it and this goal is chosen by human emotional tendencies (like to exist). If these tendencies are not satisfied by the goal of an ideology then the ideology is destined for extinction which brings us to branching ideologies, their will to exist, and how they compete against each other but that is a whole other subject/tangent.

In conclusion, no.

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