People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Human beings are said to be emotional by nature and there are a great number of emotions that characterize and inform our behavior. Some argue for the importance of staying phlegmatic and impartial in making decisions while others claim that emotions constitute an integral part in doing so. This is clearly a subjective and controversial topic in nature, but a quick reflection on cases in which emotion serves as a deterrent reveals that making decisions in an emotional state and proceeding to justify them afterwards can be detrimental.
If we examine this topic in the context of religion, it is not uncommon to hear a religious leader such as priests to make statements charged with emotion and, later on, justify them with God-related logic. For instance, a priest in the US was harshly criticized for arguing that natural disasters such as hurricanes were a direct result of God punishing "adulterating morality" in the US, including the expansion of women's reproductive rights as well as LGBTQ rights. Critics argued, due to the lack of scientific logic behind this statement, that it was solely his hatred and bigotry against women and LGBTQ individuals that led to this assertion and that he was using God only as a means to justify this emotion. As this case shows, it stands to reason, then, that drawing an emotion-filled conclusion first and rationalizing it later can turn out to be objectionable.
Similarly, it is well-known in the business world that reason and logic are ultimately what informs best business decisions. If a CEO only relies on his or her emotions to decide whether to hire his or her employees, it can invite considerable trouble as these decisions should be made purely based on merit. While it is not unusual to see plausible explanations to justify these emotion-based decisions, they tend to create distrust against management, which can have an immense impact on the HR affairs of the corporation. In this manner, it is not advisable for individuals to make decisions based on emotion and proceed to rationalize them afterwards.
Yet, while the cases above clearly demonstrate the danger of the presented statement, we cannot go as far to argue that emotion is always a deterrent to wise decisions. Emotions are an important trait that can play a vital role in certain decisions. To illustrate, for a leader that runs a non-profit organization that helps the needy, compassion is often one of the drivers that ultimately motivates him or her. This underlying emotion can serve as a guiding principle to make certain decisions, such as expanding services to increase outreach efforts despite the fact that it may result into loss for the organization. It appears important to note, consequently, that emotion-based decisions can be instrumental in certain contexts.
In summary, while there are numerous arguments to be made for both sides, the cases of individuals in the religious and business contexts exemplify the ways in which emotionally charged decisions can be detrimental in spite of the attempt to justify them afterwards.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 93, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'informs the best'.
Suggestion: informs the best
...at reason and logic are ultimately what informs best business decisions. If a CEO only relie...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'first', 'if', 'may', 'similarly', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'while', 'for instance', 'in summary', 'such as', 'as well as', 'in spite of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.224231464738 0.240241500013 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.162748643761 0.157235817809 104% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0849909584087 0.0880659088768 97% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0452079566004 0.0497285424764 91% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0470162748644 0.0444667217837 106% => OK
Prepositions: 0.132007233273 0.12292977631 107% => OK
Participles: 0.0343580470163 0.0406280797675 85% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.07336018072 2.79330140395 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0433996383363 0.030933414821 140% => OK
Particles: 0.00361663652803 0.0016655270985 217% => OK
Determiners: 0.0958408679928 0.0997080785238 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0198915009042 0.0249443105267 80% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0198915009042 0.0148568991511 134% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3092.0 2732.02544248 113% => OK
No of words: 504.0 452.878318584 111% => OK
Chars per words: 6.13492063492 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.376984126984 0.366273622748 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.305555555556 0.280924506359 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.210317460317 0.200843997647 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.176587301587 0.132149295362 134% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07336018072 2.79330140395 110% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 219.290929204 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513888888889 0.48968727796 105% => OK
Word variations: 61.2194006953 55.4138127331 110% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6194690265 82% => OK
Sentence length: 29.6470588235 23.380412469 127% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.9625855755 59.4972553346 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 181.882352941 141.124799967 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6470588235 23.380412469 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.882352941176 0.674092028746 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 60.2026143791 51.4728631049 117% => OK
Elegance: 1.53191489362 1.64882698954 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35873942464 0.391690518653 92% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.12762956837 0.123202303941 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0592060444232 0.077325440228 77% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.592347248865 0.547984918172 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.14042019451 0.149214159877 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.158484764537 0.161403998019 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0598858514743 0.0892212321368 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.371923572977 0.385218514788 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0383622350206 0.0692045440612 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.257043641635 0.275328986314 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329944922648 0.0653680567796 50% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.