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Emotion
A further implication of the Dyadic Authoritative Comparative would be
Emotion. The greatest effect upon sensory response is what is termed Consequential Value. Tragedy involving strangers may have little sensory effect upon the individual. When tragedy involves the self or personal relations, then the sensory response is usually quite affected and animated. Sensory response which is affected by Consequential Value is defined as Emotion. When the sensory response is not affected by Consequential Value, it is defined as
Natural Affection.
The house fire was seen as thrilling and a beautiful specter of a big fire, because this was a stranger's home and its loss was of no particular concern to the witness.
If Emotion is stimulated by Association contained of Consequential Value, and if Consequence is determined by the Dyadic Authoritative Comparative, the Metaphysical Ideal, as the greatest Consequence, would engender the greatest emotional reaction, like winning a million dollars.
Bipolar Consequence derives from the concept of Antithetical Opposition, defined as any state of change which is considered to be opposed and antithetical to a pre-existent state. As a generalization, natural change such as a storm, which would damage the movie theater, may be considered as antithetical to the pre-existent state. Consequential Value is polarized into opposed attributes, as conceptualized states and conditions, or the way things are supposed to be and that which is antithetical to that. This duality is given good and bad attributes, in which Consequence is attached, and which produces a bipolar emotional response system. These attributes are positive and negative such as good and bad, heaven/hell, beauty/beast, new/old, or rich and poor.
One may be supposed to hate those individuals or cultures that hold values that contradict and are a threat to one's own value system, like maybe atheists, communists, pagans, or socialists. One is supposed to love those values which are of consequence to one, such as the religious, capitalists, the rich and the elite. The conflicts that exist between what is of consequence and what is not, produce love/hate emotional sensory systems, which lead to violence of every sort.
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