Sensitivity and effectiveness

One is as alive as one can feel emotion. But when circumstance warrants stolidity and callousness in face of demanding events, can one be permitted to feel nothing, to foresee only the means to the end, to shun all qualms of the effect one is creating? Surely one would take the necessary actions of removing a person from harm, such as dragging one from a burning building. But were that person to protest ferociously, clamoring to be let alone, should one, in their best interest, do all that can be done to save them, even if this means causing considerable pain or unconsciousness to said person? Yes, for the greatest good, one must hurt some to help most.

But at which point does one revert to their own humanity, to be permitted to feel the gamut of dispositions entitled to him once again? Does one, seeing the evident efficiency of being emotionless, stay thus? Or will one be able to differentiate when one has need to feel a certain way, and when one can simply be himself and feel that which he pleases?

Many fields of mankind require him to aim at the goal, ignoring and obviating all the trauma and emotion surrounding reaching that aim. In the name of productivity, feeling must be sacrificed. But this should not be forever, and no situation ever deems it necessary to be endlessly insensate, no matter how comforting it may feel to be constantly so. Happiness, joy, pity, grief, enmity, anger, must be exhumed after they have been temporarily shut off, or the person is no longer a human, but a robot, gray and dead to the essence of life.

This truly became real to me recently, and I feel it as imperative that one be able to achieve, or rekindle, their ability to FEEL and LIVE!