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Question: Why do "Feelings, based on the ethicists' point of view, can help in making
the "Right decisions?

Try to imagine if a person have no emotions or any other sort of feeling. To put it
simple, that person can achieve anything in this world, in terms of getting work done. To
verify my point, there are a very fatal flaw on us human that keeps us from being able to
ascend on our life. We have feelings. Every person have feelings, if in the future we have
androids, feelings are what we have that they don’t. But at the same time machines can
make decisions that are appropriate on what they are programmed to. Which only means,
as long as the robot is doing its designated job as per it was programmed, it will absolutely
do nothing wrong. Because it is program to do so. Now try to imagine a human doing that.
It’s barely imaginable, because humans exhaust, they complain when they are, and rest
when they can’t go any further. It’s just human nature.

Feelings and emotions grately affect our lives. For example; when we are angry, we
tend to not talk to other people or talk endlessly on why we are. When we’re feeling tired we
go and rest. To put it simple our feeling can greatly impact our lives for the most part.
According to Amy Morin (2016), a psychotherapist, intense emotions can lead to rash
decisions, and anger and embarrassment may make you particularly vulnerable to high-risk,
low-payoff choices. People tend to make bad decision when they experience extreme
emotions, like making rash decision when angry and rushing things when being nervous. In
the end those decision has a high percentage on being bad than it is being good. A great
example is the occurance of the “What was I thinking?” phenomenon. A situation when you
either say something or did something wrong, only to realize it after a short while. Either if
it's dating a beautiful woman that treats you poorly, or spending a lot of money on a poor
investment, if you're not careful, your emotions will lead you astray. And the more powerful
the feelings are, the more clouded your judgement will be.

On the other hand, when feeling positive emotions, we tend to have a high
percentage of making good decision. Because in the end, we make decision that mostly
lead towards our happiness. We can call it greed or selfish, but it’s also a human nature to
favor himself on their life choices. People call in “love for oneself”. An example I’m most
familiar to is when gaming, the more relax I am the better I play. It is vital for me to be
relaxed when playing especially on a game like League of Legends, where fast decision-
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making is also a crucial part on winning. It’s also helpful to relaxed when interacting with
other players to ensure good chemistry and teamwork that is the most vital requirement in
winning the game. On an article of Joshua Nino De Guzman (2014), states that it’s
important to keep in touch with other interests in order to create a retreat for when you need
to relax from gaming. More on the common example is; simply when we’re happy, we tend
to look on the positive sides of the spectrum and sees an opportunity to make good
decisions.

I conclusion, it is proven that most of the case, emotions and feelings do affect our
decision making either for the better or for the worst. But making it personal and in
accordance to my beliefs, what comes after that decisions are the most important. It’s either
you take responsibility to that decision or not. Because in the end we’re all humans. There
are so many factors that affect our decision making, like our situation, state, emotions and
more. We do make bad decisions and bad things happen. It is inevitable. Going back to my
example, the “What was I thinking?” phenomenon. We tend to say things or do things that is
not acceptable for time to time, but being responsible is up to us. Because when you do bad
things but take responsibility for it and make it right for me is a good decision. Doing bad
decisions is easy, acknowledging it is hard, but taking responsibility for it to make it better is
even harder. But for me it’s the right thing to do.
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REFERENCES
Amy Morin (2016), 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do,
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-mentally-strong-people-dont-
do/201602/4-ways-emotions-can-screw-your-decisions#:~:text=Intense%20emotions
%20can%20lead%20to,emotions%20impair%20self%2Dregulation%20skills.

Joshua Nino De Guzman (2014), The mental strength of pro gamers,

https://www.redbull.com/gb-
en/the-mental-strength-of-pro-gamers