What do you think life would be like if we lost our ability to feel?

[BCRanger10]

I just finished watching the movie Equilibrium (highly underrated early Christian Bale movie). The premise of the movie is that after World War III, man has determined that human emotion is the cause of war, pain, crime, and suffering. Society has been rebuilt via emotion-suppressing drugs and destroying anything that evokes emotion. No music, no films or stage plays, no painting or photography, nothing. It's essentially illegal to feel.

That sounds miserable! Two key lines in the film are "Without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock... ticking" and "A heavy cost. I'd pay it gladly".

What do you think life would be like if we lost, or better yet, surrendered our ability to feel?

[Lliam]

We would not experience awe and wonder for the exquisite majesty of creation. We could not appreciate beauty. We could not experience tenderness, empathy, love or infatuation. There would be no motivation to be creative. We would not be curious.
Life would not be worth living.

[SixFootSexy]

Become one with the borg. You have nothing to lose but your chains (of emotions).

Life is a losing battle against gravity

[NordicInScandinavia]

It's awful. Its blend. Dull. Makes everything indifferent. Neither good, nor bad - just is, and what's the point of that?

(Took medication that made me numb as fuck)

[Anonymous]

I feel like technically we'd be more advanced and less war

[DrPepper12]

Exit stage left... No point to a mortal coil without emotion. Capt James t Kirk put it best:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ABLYnvpAso

[Staximus]

I'd we didn't evolve to have feelings we would still be animals, fighting to the death over another animal's carcass to survive.

[ProbablyClueless]

Life would become quite bland.

[Agape93]

Empty.