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by ksangeelee 854 days ago
You can still be enraged by things you know are not real. You can reason about your emotional response, but it's much harder to prevent an emotional response from happening in the first place.
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... and learning to prevent emotional response means unlearning to be human, like burnt out people.

The only winning move is to not watch.

You can have an emotional response and still act rationally.