Chessie
Community Member
- MBTI
- INfJ
I know that's a strange thing for an INFJ to ask. Certainly my own feelings on the ideas I hold very dear to myself tend to get fairly passionate.
I've noticed something lately when I've tried to have genuinely philosophical discussions with people (even in the local philosophy group) and that is that there is a point beyond which few people are willing to explore and at which point emotion becomes the sole basis for their arguments.
For some people this has been the accountability and responsibility which we can hold people to when they have addictions. Others have stopped at the point of wondering why men and women have orgasms. It's as though contemplation and consideration just end when you begin to ask questions and posit answers. Emotion becomes a stumbling block rather than the wonderful assistance it usually is to help people intuit out new ideas.
Most often this 'shut down' happens on points of morality. Fundamentalists have a far shorter 'shut down period' before emotion clamps down on logic and reason. You can begin a conversation with a fundamentalist which goes 'Does God exist?' and they'll have instantly shut down from the idea that you believe there's any chance God doesn't.
Have you experienced this shut-down in having philosophical discussions?
Who with? What caused it? Did you manage to work your way out of it?
I've noticed something lately when I've tried to have genuinely philosophical discussions with people (even in the local philosophy group) and that is that there is a point beyond which few people are willing to explore and at which point emotion becomes the sole basis for their arguments.
For some people this has been the accountability and responsibility which we can hold people to when they have addictions. Others have stopped at the point of wondering why men and women have orgasms. It's as though contemplation and consideration just end when you begin to ask questions and posit answers. Emotion becomes a stumbling block rather than the wonderful assistance it usually is to help people intuit out new ideas.
Most often this 'shut down' happens on points of morality. Fundamentalists have a far shorter 'shut down period' before emotion clamps down on logic and reason. You can begin a conversation with a fundamentalist which goes 'Does God exist?' and they'll have instantly shut down from the idea that you believe there's any chance God doesn't.
Have you experienced this shut-down in having philosophical discussions?
Who with? What caused it? Did you manage to work your way out of it?