We are creatures of LOGIC not EMOTION.

Does anyone even value Dale Carnegie anymore? Dale Carnegie. Google search.

Do people base their decisions off of reason or emotion? When you're buying a phone, you tend to compare the specifications of everything and that combined with the price leads you to your decision. If you're adopting a dog, well... you're adopting a dog.

Although we all feel feelings (hopefully), and are always thinking things based on our emotions, I find that when expressing these emotions or making a decision, we always tend to use logic. What will be the least offensive? What will make me sound the least stupid? What has the most pros?

Now should we be basing all of our actions on logic?

Disregarding any emergency life or death situations... I think the answer to that question comes back to the age old question: Are people inherently good or inherently bad?

The good side:
Often times, people are afraid to say how they think or how they truly feel. When someone has spinach in their teeth, no one tells them because they're not sure if that will offend them or not. If someone y'know... like likes someone, they're always scared to tell the other person in case they look like an idiot walking away alone. Everyone would be less stressed out all the time if we knew no one would have to talk shit about us behind our backs, and if they had something to say, would just come out and make fun of us to our faces!

The bad dark side.
Yes there are people that think all people just maintain high levels of self control but deep inside just imagine murdering everyone that crosses their path.  (The average person may be offended by this because maybe we aren't all secretly rapists/nazis/child pornographers/cannibals/politicians as the song suggests.. instead take it as... we are all secretly selfishly motivated and therefore bad). Inherently bad = inherently selfish. No one wants to SEEM like the bad guy... like the guys in the song. If everyone acted on their emotions, no one would help anyone, and everyone would only do what is best for themselves. Everyone would be nasty and unforgiving and there would be no such thing as a true friendship. If we all acted on emotions, we would all be sad and alone. No one is allowed to know that we are cynics.

So if I could decide for myself, if I could pick between believing in the inherent good or the inherent evil, I would tell you whether I think people should act more based on emotion or on logic.

Reason, Emotion, and the SYSTEM

When speaking about whether or not a post-secondary education should be free or not, I found that the three main ways of knowing in this debate are reason, emotion, and faith (in our society).

In terms of reason, those against a free education could say that it wouldn't function in the realms of our economy. A small hand full of people said that our economy is fine and everyone that wants to can either get an education or find a job, but the fact that people believe that could go towards one of their arguments, that the quality of a free education will be lesser than that of a paid education (on the same spectrum, they argued that the people in the private institutions will end up in a bubble and not learn about the world outside of their socioeconomic class). Those for a free post-secondary education could form a reasonable argument in that that everyone who cannot afford an education deserves a free method of attaining one if they so please, simply because the amount of money in their bank account shouldn't determine the amount of knowledge they have access to.

Regarding emotion specifically in the film we watched, when the Cooper Union announced a tuition, most of the current students were appalled in that it was going against the words the institution was founded on. Its not like they would have to pay the tuition, because they were graduating, but they still felt an emotional connection to the school and any future students of the school, and believed it wouldn't be just to go against the school's word. Coincidentally, in class, a big reason why people stood on the free education side of the classroom was because it was "right." That it is somehow morally wrong to have something considered so vital in today's society be paid. That, especially recently, all of us are being bombarded with college tuition prices and countless ways to try for a scholarship or apply for financial aid, and perhaps some part of all of us felt that people children shouldn't have to be put through that kind of pressure (as if the pressure of applying wasn't bad enough).

Although when speaking about faith, I'm pretty sure its meant in a religious beliefs kind of way, I mean it in a faith in our government/society way. Now, I'm not saying everyone has faith in the government, so in that case, a lack of faith could cause peoples' opinions to sway. Many people have faith in the "system:" they believe that so long as they go to a good college and get a degree they will get a job and pay off their debts and start their lives, or they believe that college is the only way to do so. Some people have faith in that they can be successful as long as the work hard, regardless of whether or not they have a college education. Now although these beliefs don't inherently fall under one side of the debate or the other, they do contribute. Someone who believes that college is the only way to monetary success could either believe that everyone should have the opportunity to get an education (in order to strengthen the middle class), or they could believe that the less people that attend college, the richer they (the college valuing and attending individual) could become. People who don't necessarily find college as a necessity might find that a free education is viable, because they  don't understand the value that other people see in it - they wouldn't price it, or they believe that the more people go drastically into debt to earn a sheet of paper, the more sheeple will exist out there and the more unique and revered their outlook will become.