People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

"Humans are emotional fools".Even in dire situations that call for objectivity in making decisions, man has often been found to succumb to his feelings, rather than use his mental faculties and base his decision on solid evidence. Such decisions often fail the test of time, simply because they are taken by the heart and not by the brain!

Human beings are often victims of their heart, and take comfort in not basing their decision on hard facts. Very often, when such emotionally-driven decisions are scrutinised carefully at a later date, they will be found to lack credibility and utility, however clever they must have seemed during their genesis. Justifying such decisions using a logical stance has no meaning, however cutting that logic may be.

Many statespersons and administrators have been guilty of such sentimental exercises. Many soft-hearted heads of state have often granted pardon to some deadly criminals and terrorists, freeing them from death sentences. The logic used to justify such decisions is that the criminal must have reformed for the better after being behind bars for a sizeable time. Down the line, these condoned criminals have often gone on to perpetrate larger crimes, thus raising doubts about the validity of the initial decision taken to grant them amnesty.

Modern medicine is witnessing a very exciting time, burgeoning with many ground-breaking innovations like stem cells and stronger therapies to battle cancer. Such scientific marvels are often the result of painstaking research gathered over ten-fifteen years and sometimes even more. But when prominent members of the general public blatantly condemn such innovations, they do it under the pretext of "a greater common good" and that humans are "tampering with Nature" - wholly emotional conclusions. Though these statements may have an iota of truth, they must be based on solid scientific facts, instead of just baselessly arguing against potentially life-saving discoveries.

Decision-making is essentially a cognitive process. This said, there is a very fine line dividing our intelligence and emotional quotients, both important factors in our decision making process. Decisions made from the heart are not always wrong, but they are not fetching in all scenarios. Humans must learn to make a proper distinction between the mind and the heart while making decisions, for only such decisions can face the test of credibility, head-on!