Personality derives from emotional responces and learnt responces via stimulus.
For example, social interaction can promote further social interaction via happyness or affection, or can prevent it via embarrassment, shame or sadness depending on peoples reactions.
Learnt responces are essentially gained from the parent - child bond, and learning what is and is not right.
Therefore, if you cripple both emotion in a person, what will you get?
A devoid personality will result simply because there is not longer a capacity for fufillment from anything whatsoever. Learnt responces fade as there is no longer a negative reaction.
This person is now free.
I mean this in the sence that in this state, life itself no longer has any value. The person is free to do literally anything, without risk to themselves.
They are no longer bound by morality, nothing is wrong, yet nothing is right. A man who is devoid of hope is also devoid of fear.
Countless boundaries are eliminated.
You may judge them when they say they cannot see the intrinsic evil of something such as murder, but how will you react when they cannot see love as something positive?
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Penitent on Jan 8, 2009, 3:51 pm
I would say so, as self-preservation derives from emotional attachment to living itself. ~P~
sisterjulia on Jan 8, 2009, 3:41 pm
What choices could a truly emotionally detached person make? It crosses my mind, that the word evil in most of it's definitions means barely anything more than anti-social...and that most anti-social behaviour is driven by the emotional state of the individual. Even if it's just fear of death or survival instinct. In a struggle to the death with another human would a person truly free from any attachments to life be the more likely to surrender thus allowing the other to live...to self-sacrifice.?