Emotions?

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What would the world be like without emotions, I have heard the phrase "Emotions get you killed", and I question even though that is more along the lines of phrase said in warfare, is it right or wrong to show emotions, I sometimes wonder what it would be like, i see many good things from it; not having to feel or care about anything, and then there are some bad things; such as what is the choice to cherish family, to care for others lives, whether to actknoledge fear of death? I however do see major consequences with not feeling, death, injuries; but then I wonder what if you cared for only your self aka self centered as I have been called, I have been thinking about this for days and I question whether there is a right and wrong awnser, what if it is simply chosen by the person personality or by there own will, I realize that I'm mainly asking this for my own personal benifit, but I figured philosophy is a good area to start, or at least I think so

If you cared only for yourself, you'd still have some emotions. If you had no emotions, you'd basically be catatonic.

Computers are without emotion. Would you prefer to be a robot?

Technically, people wouldn't function. You know how about with most decisions, there are a LOT of different variables. For example, when deciding what you do monday there are all of the issues like "what will the weather be like?", "what else is happening?", "what else might happen?" and so on and so forth? Well, what emotions do is they help people short-cut all of those issues and finally make a freaking decision.

Motivations are, as Neanthumain points out, also the source of human motivation. So, you know how you may enjoy reading Star Trek novels, or thinking about the nature of life, or want to improve your life? Well, emotions are the major source of this. Without emotions, you would be catatonic.

People who have brain damage that leaves them without emotion (but otherwise intact) are incapable of making even the most trivial decisions, because without an emotional response we have almost nothing on which to base our actions.

You as a person are constructed on information only. Your "you" is just programming or brain wiring, memory connections.
Yes it is like you’re just a virtual personality. If you become brain dead - all is deleted as it were. Your "personality" leaves no "body" behind.

Your "personality" is virtual, artificial, information construct, illusionary design of realism.

Different parts of the brain have different functions. People will talk drugs to dull or shut down emotions.

Can you ever know what it must be like to prostitute yourself just for dirty money?
That is why they need drugs. To get off the drugs is to care and to remember with full emotions of what they have become.

Well thank you for all of the replies, no I'm not going to try and be emotionless some how I have succeeded at that already, but your awnsers are valued and respected thanks, I'm just trying to find my barrings, of recent I have sort of lost them.