If you HAD TO remove one emotion, what would it be?

[Zekromic 1,054]

Fear. It is a big obstacle that keeps us from being able to overcome our adversities. 

Take note that without fear, there would be no humanity, we would be extinct before reaching homo sapiens

I'm with Phoenix Questioner, excess of emotions causes problems, much more than people realize, but all of them have their place

[LittleRawr 679]

As much as I'd like to remove something like anxiety, it would cause more problems in the long run. Anxiety helps us actually do something about what we're anxious about.

[Vedana Purity 221]

Nevousness.

 

God I have being nervous.

[MilesTheLunar 67]

Anger, hands down.

Yeah, I know that instances where'd I'd normally feel angry would make me feel sad now, but I can deal with sorrow. I'm cool with it. In fact, sorrow really isn't all that bad.

I'm not just saying that because I'm trying to sound edgy and cool and all that nonsense. I genuinely mean it.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

Hate. Such a pointless emotion. While getting irritated with someone is understandable and sometimes necessary to our growth as humans, outright hate is often unnecessary

[Lunatic Cake 1,618]

I would probably remove jealousy because I can't stand that feeling in some cases and it occasionally makes me feel like an idiot. -_-

[DATA EXPUNGED 324]

I would remove all emotion. Emotion hinders Logic. It is an obstacle to human evolutionary progress. 

That is all

[Everleaf 541]

Depression it gets to so many people I just wish it to just stop for one single day...

[Treble Bolt 1,122]

pain...not physical pain, but internal pain. To carry the pain from ones past is the one thing that can stop anyone from taking one step forward into their future. It's hard to explain the pain in my chest when I think about my past and what I have gone through. Anyone with PTSD can relate to all the crippling emotions you feel when relive horrid events.

 

I would not say Hate, because Hate is a choice and not exactly an emotion, and what emotions are associated with hatred, can be and often are fleeting....

Anger too is more a choice than an emotion. We often associate our behaviour and actions with the negative emotions we face when we are angry. Anger itself as the emotion is not bad, in any way. It's what we do with our anger that makes us detest it.

[Jaytheforth 10]

I wouldn't remove any emotions. All emotions serve their own purpose, to protect, to be free, to cherish, to express yourself, to feel the pain. All your life requires all of your emotions; it's never the emotions themselves that are bad. The things that you really want to remove aren't emotions, they're the bad sides of emotions. I would keep all emotions; without which, balance would be lost.

[Side Bird 566]

Hmm

Maybe sadness, though anger/hate most likely

Never get something good from acting on hate

[silvadel 1,393]

Fear. It is a big obstacle that keeps us from being able to overcome our adversities. 

 

You remove fear and you kill the world.  There was a Batman episode where Scarecrow did just that.  Without fear, you open a wide range of bad options.

 

If I had to remove an emotion, it would be Envy.  People would no longer be jealous of what others had.

[Lucky Bolt 35,063]

Any of the negative ones really...sadness and anger in particular.

[Envy 6,166]

Romantic love. Combined with some spearmint to knock out any sex drive, I would no longer desire to be with anyone, which would be for the best.

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I would definitely get rid of nervousness, 100%. I feel it half the time, AND I HATE IT. 

[Xe__or 4,377]

Compassion just limits me to be honest.

[Thuja 3,659]

I think I'd like to get rid of self-doubt, it's very limiting since I have a hard time getting past worrying that I'll fail something instead of actually trying something.  Sometimes I can't help but wonder how much I've missed over the years because of self-doubt.

[Will Guide 21,360]

None. Inside Out proved to me the importance of all emotions, even the negative ones. As long as you keep your emotions from going to extreme decisions, they actually help.

Anger helps keep things fair or lets you stand up to a bully. No physical violence is necessarily going to happen

Disgust helps keeps your personal standards

Fear helps keep you from doing something that could get you killed like jump off a building or swimming in shark-infested waters

And Sadness helps you empathize with others going through rough times.

Heck, the film even shows the downsides of being joyously happy 24/7. It doesn't always pick people up when they're feeling down. Plus having to smile all the time just makes one look creepy

So no. I wouldn't get rid of any of my emotions.

Even characters like Muad Pie are capable of feeling emotion and understanding it. They just don't express it on their face or in their voice as well as other people do and that's normal.

Edited August 15, 2019 by Will Guide

[TBD 17,254]

All emotions are important, it's what makes us wiser.. but for the hell of it, if I have to choose one it would be the feeling of anguish. 

[Randimaxis 8,652]

Shame.

Without it, I'd be famous by now... of course, I'd also probably be someone I wouldn't want to know,  so... *shrug*

[Angle Alastor 3,805]

Hate.................... that is all becouse the world would be a better place.

[Hat988 108]

Without thinking about it for long, to answer the question I would say envy. Envious people are responsible for a lot of held-back talent and bring down people who exceed them. However, removing envy also removes magnanimity. There would be no concept of it, but it also wouldn't be needed. I wonder if this applies globally. If you remove anger, forgiveness would go as well, but you would not need to forgive. Is the virtue worth keeping? It doesn't seem you would need it if the vice isn't there to necessitate the virtue. What if you removed the emotion sadness—the cost of doing so would be happiness. But you wouldn't need it.

Edited August 16, 2019 by Hat988

[Partialgeek514 5,011]

I believe hate is the worst of all human emotions, and it kind of relates to all other negative emotions in some way. I think the world would be at its best if all hate was ended. I wouldn't want the idea or ability of hate taken away though. Without the ability to hate, there wouldn't be the ability to love either.

[TheRockARooster 51,301]

Stress, bloody awful stress.

[A Small Bear 60]

From all human beings? Hate. It's the one we need the least at this point.