Emotion has much less utility to humans than cognition because our environment has changed at a must faster pace than our underlying biology. The social demands of a well-adjusted cognitive human conflict with the internal irrational animalistic state we manifest as. Smith saw this (albeit in an ultra-positive light), Marx saw this, and so did Freud. The entire concern of modern Clinical Psychology is to morph willing dysfunctional human beings in this rat race of life into well-adjusted, adaptive ones, and approaches mostly deal with how to manage emotions in a world where emotion is worthless and cognition is demanded.
@ the bolded section: i don't know what world you're living in, but it sure isn't this one. emotion, in this world, is totally demanded. if you don't conform to certain social norms having to do with emotion, you'll be outright rejected. even people that understand your view will have massive pressure on them to not associate with you. our culture DEMANDS emotion at least as much as it demands "cognition", which i'll take to mean rationality devoid of the human element.
also, without social ideals about morality, the world becomes a much scarier place. there are no objective reasons not to kill, steal, rape, etc. if everyone could just do whatever they deem "logical", people would be less inclined to work together, which, on a large scale, would be terribly inefficient.
the truth about humans is that we're limited. sure, certain emotions are non-useful side effects of selection for useful traits. but if you start rejecting all human limitation, why don't you say something like "damn, it's so worthless that humans have to sleep. we live in a world where sleep is useless and wakefulness is demanded!"
it's not illogical to assume that it is dying and will take a smaller back seat in the future of humanity.
i think that's pretty illogical. how are people without emotions more reproductively fit, given the attitude of the common person today?
F is only helpful when you want to talk to sick people.
actually, no. you're telling me you act the exact same way with people that have the same values as you as you do with people who disagree with all your values? there's no way. you respect people that share your values. you trust them more. you confide in them. you value their ideas. you think they are "GOOD".
if someone disagreed with everything you said, you'd think to yourself -- what a retard; i'm not gonna give them the time of day. and if you were someday in a room with them and the person you trust, you'd weight the opinion of the person you trust higher, even if it was wrong.
In reality, You should not speak of F as helpful, but akin to that "mercy" dose of heroin you give to the addict because they are too weak and too dependant on the exhilation of an emotional high that they can no longer go on without it. Which I'm all for, actually. It's a great big white world, and all the F in the world is dying the good death.
seems like you think of F as "bad". very Fi of you.