Humanity’s Values is a reader-supported publication. Please consider subscribing as a way of supporting the delivery of the content you’re appreciating. Also, feel free to share and expand the community of reflective critcism. Our emotions are always with us, rising seemingly out of nowhere like a giant sea serpent, at other times existing like a still ocean, always there but not causing any trouble. Unfortunately, emotions often get a bad reputation, particularly when placed next to rationality, as if the two are diametrically opposed, with emotions, therefore, being irrational.