Is it because of our sense compassion? Empathy? If so, one may very well make the argument that a race is best served without such features, but would this life be worth living without such a dichotomous experience that these emotions (along with all others) provide?
Isn't empathy logical though? i.e. why do we say empathy is a good thing? I think it comes down to what we consider "right" to do, and there lies the old "is/ought" problem.
To take the child overboad example: pain/death *is* something I wish to avoid, that person *is* no different from me, therefore we *ought* to save that child from pain/death. It's a bunch of logical statements that end in a value judgement.
IMO empathy is great and logically sound. It's just not as clear what our value judgement should be in more complicated situations.
So yes, a bunch of people might immediately scream to turn the boat around, but just because I don't doesn't mean I don't have any empathy for the child. My value judgement just takes in more than the immediate "there's a child overboard" problem. And in that particular sense, *absolutely* yes 100% I think we'd be better off without emotion, or rather without being so prone to being blinded/controlled by emotion.
Leaving aside the physical feeling of actually experiencing emotions, the way I see emotion is maybe as helpful pointers to what values are being triggered subconsciously.
It sound like you're talking about the NWO.
Well, yes kind of but again, the difference is that the elitist group is an AI who represents everyone in this case. One for all and all for one