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I fail to see the humour in this. Uncontrolled emotions often lead to illogical thought processes and behaviour. Illogical behaviour is at best suboptimal or counterproductive, and at worst outright destructive. While metaphorically beating one's emotions into submission might sound odd to most humanoids inhabiting this planet, it is necessary due to our brain's functioning and our current inability to change or improve upon it.

τλ;δρ emotions are shit, rationality must prevail.

>>9
I'll explain what I meant in >>4: Choose some "goodness" metric. Consider two methods for decision-making (input is an environment and a query, and output is a decision). If you analyse all cases where method A (rational thought) and method B (emotional response) yield the same decision, you learn nothing about the differences between the two. However, if you analyse the cases where method A and method B yield different decisions, you may compare the decisions for each case and see which is better (given some metric) for each case, then judge the efficiency of the methods by that.

Since method A (rational thought) always chooses best decision given the metric, every time the output of method B disagrees with it, this output cannot be any better than the decision outputted by method A (by the maximality of the latter). Therefore, method A is always better than or equal to method B. In practise, however, the inequality is strict.

>>14
I was referring to controlling one's emotions, not eliminating them entirely.