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->Logic could only take you so far, then you [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome had to get out and walk.]]

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->Logic could only take you so far, then you [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome had to get out and walk.]]
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-->-- '''Eliezer Yudkowsky''', ''[[http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/ Why Truth? And...]]''

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-->-- '''Eliezer Yudkowsky''', '''Creator/EliezerYudkowsky''', ''[[http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/ Why Truth? And...]]''
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->''"[[BigBad Kronika]] had manipulated me. In timeline after timeline, she stoked my anger and fed my arrogance, turning me against [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]]. My nose rubbed in my own fallibility, I was humbled. How could I be worthy to accept the mantle as [[TimeMaster Keeper of Time]]? I thought that to control time and destiny fairly, I must purge myself of all human emotion. Summoning the strongest magic, I burned away my fear and anger. All that remained was pure logic. But I learned quickly that the logical choice is often not the just choice. Unless tempered by compassion and heart, logic leads to decisions no better than those based on anger or fear. Now I am once more at time's beginning. But on this journey through history, I will infuse logic with love. In this timeline, I will finally achieve peace for the citizens of all realms."''

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->''"[[BigBad Kronika]] had manipulated me. In timeline after timeline, she stoked my anger and fed my arrogance, turning me against [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]]. My nose rubbed in my own fallibility, I was humbled. How could I be worthy to accept the mantle as [[TimeMaster Keeper of Time]]? I thought that to control time and destiny fairly, I must purge myself of all human emotion. Summoning the strongest magic, I burned away my fear and anger. All that remained was pure logic. But I learned quickly that the logical choice is often not the just choice. Unless tempered by compassion and heart, logic leads to decisions no better than those based on anger or fear. Now I am once more at time's beginning. [[{{Reconstruction}} But on this journey through history, I will infuse logic with love. love.]] In this timeline, I will finally achieve peace for the citizens of all realms."''
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->Consider Mr. Spock of ''Star Trek'', a naive archetype of rationality. Spock's emotional state is always set to 'calm', even when [[DissonantSerenity wildly inappropriate]]. He often gives many significant digits for probabilities that are grossly uncalibrated. (E.g: "Captain, if you steer the Enterprise directly into that black hole, our probability of surviving is only 2.234%" Yet [[NeverTellMeTheOdds nine times out of ten]] the ''Enterprise'' is not destroyed. What kind of [[SuperOCD tragic fool]] gives four significant digits for a figure that is off by two orders of magnitude?) Yet this popular image is how many people conceive of the duty to be "rational"—small wonder that they do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

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->Consider Mr. Spock of ''Star Trek'', a naive archetype of rationality. Spock's emotional state is always set to 'calm', even when [[DissonantSerenity wildly inappropriate]]. He often gives many significant digits for probabilities that are grossly uncalibrated. (E.g: "Captain, if you steer the Enterprise directly into that black hole, our probability of surviving is only 2.234%" Yet [[NeverTellMeTheOdds nine times out of ten]] the ''Enterprise'' is not destroyed. What kind of [[SuperOCD tragic fool]] fool gives four significant digits for a figure that is off by two orders of magnitude?) Yet this popular image is how many people conceive of the duty to be "rational"—small wonder that they do not embrace it wholeheartedly.
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-->--'''The Second Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Wheel in Space"

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-->--'''The Second Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace The Wheel in Space"
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->''"[[BigBad Kronika]] had manipulated me. In timeline after timeline, she stoked my anger and fed my arrogance, turning me against [[Characters/MortalKombatLiuKang Liu Kang]]. My nose rubbed in my own fallibility, I was humbled. How could I be worthy to accept the mantle as [[TimeMaster Keeper of Time]]? I thought that to control time and destiny fairly, I must purge myself of all human emotion. Summoning the strongest magic, I burned away my fear and anger. All that remained was pure logic. But I learned quickly that the logical choice is often not the just choice. Unless tempered by compassion and heart, logic leads to decisions no better than those based on anger or fear. Now I am once more at time's beginning. But on this journey through history, I will infuse logic with love. In this timeline, I will finally achieve peace for the citizens of all realms."''
-->-- '''Raiden''''s Tower Ending, ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''
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->''"August wishes she were better at (comforting an angst-stricken [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Jane]], lamenting the life that she had missed out on). She's great at taking notes and picking apart facts, but she's never been good at navigating the rivers of feelings that run beneath."''
-->-- ''Literature/OneLastStop''
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->'''Edgeworth:''' Thanks to you, I'm with unnecessary... ''feelings.''

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->'''Edgeworth:''' Thanks to you, I'm saddled with unnecessary... ''feelings.''
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->'''Edgeworth:''' Thanks to you, I'm with unnecessary... ''feelings.''
->'''Phoenix:''' Unnecessary feelings?
->'''Edgeworth:''' Yes. Unease... and uncertainty.
->'''Phoenix:''' Aren't those kind of ''necessary''?
->'''Edgeworth:''' They only serve to get in my way.
-->-- ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''
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->Logic could only take you so far, then you [[RealityEnsues had to get out and walk.]]

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->Logic could only take you so far, then you [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome had to get out and walk.]]
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->What has “reason” ever done for us, other than produce utilitarian arguments for the liquidation of human beings and the commodification of everything? Reason makes it possible to declare that the deaths of children are “worth” it, whatever the fuck “it” is supposed to be. Reason makes despair possible, the same way aspirations to immortality make death unbearably sad. Reason helps us get nowhere and never stop going there.
-->-- '''[[https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/a-snowpiercer-thinkpiece-not-to-be-taken-too-seriously-but-for-very-serious-reasons-or-the-worst-revenge-is-a-living-will/ Aaron Bady]]'''
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-->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''

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-->-- '''Annika-709''', ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
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-->-- ''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=4084&chapter=1 Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space]]''

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-->-- ''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=4084&chapter=1 Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space]]''
''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
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-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Iteration X''

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-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Convention Book: Iteration X''
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->It's been said by others ([[BiasSteamRoller typically those with an axe to grind]]) that the Technocracy in general, and [[{{Cyborg}} Iteration X]] in particular, want to stomp out the impurity of human emotion and [[WorldOfSilence eradicate Mankind's ability to feel love, desire, fear, pain and glory]], to replace it with a seamless, textureless shell of logic. [[DefiedTrope That's bunk]]. Humans have emotions for a reason, as there are problems that can only be solved by the application of emotional understanding. Only an idiot would believe those understandings are not important. Contrary to popular belief, most of Iteration X are not idiots. [[Creator/{{Confucius}} Master Confucius]] was not an idiot. To experience subdued emotion, in Confucius' mind, was not to abandon emotion but to temper it with wisdom and logic.
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Iteration X''
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-->-- '''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=4084&chapter=1 Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space]]'''

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-->-- '''[[http://www.''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=4084&chapter=1 Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space]]'''
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