Data or Troi?

Crazy hypothetical: Data or Troi *

If you had to choose which who would you rather be:

  A person that always knows exactly what any person they come in contact with is feeling and has a total and instant empathy with them, so much so that they then share that same feeling. Any emotion a person bring with them is now your own.

Or,  A person that has no emotional connection to any person, so much so that they often confused by any emotional response. They are distance and aloof from the feelings of other, so they recognize them but they are not affect by other emotions expect on a logical level.[i]

Who would you be?

*Crazy Hypothetical is a mental game that gives you a conditional choice that gets you thinking about a subject. I used these for several years as discussion starters in Bible class. This one can be used to examine how and why act towards people.

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[i] IE I know that that person is angry but it won’t intimidate me but I can understand how that might cause him to hit me.