Radical policy against Feeling
http://www.typologycentral.com/foru...nality-matrices/6561-thinking-vs-feeling.html
This essay serves as prolegomenon to this one. The above is a more thorough rendition of the post below. The post below contains only a few elements of supplemental material.
Definitions.
Feeling: Faculty of conscious interpersonal scrutiny. Tells us whether something is agreeable or disagreeable to us. (Value judgment)
Thinking: Faculty of conscious impersonal scrutiny. (Applies logic to give structure to intended projects of thought.)
I propose that we discourage people from using Feeling in society because when we feel we merely impose our "personal values" which is a euphemism for our prejudices, tastes, likes and dislikes onto others.
This is a crime against the individual as the values are forced upon him through sheer 'personality'.
It is acceptable to convince one to change his views based on rationale, or merely point out that his views are false. Hey Charlier today is Tuesday, not Wednesday, check your calendar! Nothing wrong with this.
Now, Charlie! You ought to like Noodle Soup and not pourage! You ought to be a Christian! You ought to Vote for Nader! Is not acceptable as here you're not giving him reasons to embrace those choices but merely pounding them over his head.
The former is an example of Thinking, the latter of Feeling.
Feeling in itself is fine as long as it stays as a conviction of personal sentiment. Our personal sentiments are a reflection of who we are. To attempt to force our values onto others means to have them become more like ourselves.
This is a crime against the individual. The biggest crime there could be. As that robs the individual of the voice of what he should be like.
All people must be true to themselves and personal values should not be a reflection of the views of others they have taken upon themselves but reflections of their true selves. Results of their independent thought. There is nothing that is more of an anathema to this than Feeling. As Feeling says, this is how I feel you should too! If you do not do so, I am not going to like you anymore!
Lets not pretend this isnt happening, as even on this site we find that Feelers tend to be more agreeable with others than Thinkers and many will evne confess that they would be afraid to say something to others that would make them like them less. As I was once asked by a person I was romantically entangled once when I was stating some of my views of concerning religion.. 'Oups..did I just disagree with you there!?'
Accordingly.
All political decisions are to be made based on a clear-cut rationale. Any politician who makes a decision based on religion, gut-feeling, hunch, a personal value of any kind should be impeached for abuse of office.
Organized religion is to be banned. Religion cannot be justified through rationale, 'there is a reason it is called faith!'. You can believe in whatever non-sense that floats your boat, but you have no right to force it onto others. Especially by preying on the innocent children and ignorant adults attending those services.
When arts, literature and religion are taught in public schools, only facts about the material must be presented. Absolutely no values. Most school teachers are Feelers and seem to be comfortable forcing their values onto the students. Pride themselves on how 'they want to be just like me, they mimic me, they scrutinize every move of mine'. No, no, this is not education. This is inculcation. They are not merely showing them ways of how to think about ideas, they are trying to get students to 'see' things they way they do. No good. Just give them the facts, help them reason through the problem as much as you'd like, but don't you dare tell them how they ought to feel.
All of this would be fine in private schools or private religious organizations as there people may voluntarily share values and are not shaped to see the world in a particular way.
Feeling is subjective by nature and has no business handling matters that require sober objective judgments. It has no place in our society, only in your private life where it may rein supreme if you wish. As after all Feeling is the only faculty that insists we believe in things without examination. Feeling is the only faculty that insists we act out on an impulse without knowing what we are doing. 'Listen to your heart!'.
Feeling is the only faculty leading us to like or dislike people based on not something we know about them, but on some strange 'Feel' we can't even describe.
Lets face it people, with 'Feeling' we do not know what the hell we're doing. We only have a naive 'feel' of cognizance with respect to this but no more. Hopefully after this regime has been practiced for an extended period of time it will lead this cognitive tendency of ours into recession, and the dom, auxiliary F types will either die off(evolve into types more adept at survival in the T oriented environment) or for the very least fade into the background.
Noone will be screaming 'OUGHT TO FEEL!' will not have silly feuds over frivolous matters, e.g myspace group 'INFPs against ESTJs', less wars because someone's 'honor' was hurt. All actions will be assessed in terms of desirable or undesirable. Rational or irrational. The rational folks won't have to bend over backwards to please the childish whims of heart-centered thinkers.
All ideas will be weighed out carefully based on their merits, not based on who they offend or who they do not offend.
Yes, the heart-centered organizations will go underground, but we will have to go underground with them with under-cover agents. This will create much havoc for the next century at least, but in the end we will be in the position where we are free to make rational decisions. Free to do what makes sense instead of worrying how we can go on with our lives without setting off some unexpected emotional reaction.
The classical conflict between science and religion is an example of this. This is still happening at the hands of modern Muslim extremists. They are murdering individuals for disagreeing with their values. Classical example of a conflict between a Thinking faculty and a Feeling.
In short, the Thinker states his rationale, and the Feeler responds 'OUGHT TO FEEL MY WAY' GRFRRHOEREOHOHRIREHOOHRHOTIHOIEOEIHETOHTEOHEOHIOHIEOHIE.
If you do not feel his way, he shall attack you.
Anyone who may still cherish the hope of man becoming a rational animal must see the existence of such cognitive tendencies within our psyche as an abomination.
Many will rightly protest here.
In this context, many Feelers are to be considered thinkers. Especially on this board. This is not due to any merit of Feeling. Far from it. Many of you Fs here have been trained to use your Thinking through education, not inculcation as described above. Especially those of you who have experienced 'higher' education.
Most Fs just know better than this. They are well on their way to having this tendency eradicated, but in pure essence, it is exactly like the ignominous behavior described above. We only have our rational faculties to thank for why this is not happening as frequently as the pure element of Feeling would have allowed for it to.