<p>I believe everyone can be understood and appreciated. But when my sister and I fight, understanding goes out the window and I resort to crude threats. It's as if I stop thinking when I'm forced to defend what's mine. I find it disturbing. But maybe that's just how people are.</p>
<p>When threatened, we resort to our primeval instincts- fight or flight. </p>
<p>Perfectly natural.</p>
<p>That doesn’t have anything to do with ethics, but manners.</p>
<p>I thought we were going to talk about real war. </p>
<p>All is fair in love and war.</p>
<p>Emotions hijacking your cognition. It happens to everyone in varying degrees, but especially when you are young. It is one thing that tends to improve with maturity: learning to control emotional impulses and letting the more developed, higher-order part of our brain stay in charge.</p>
<p>Emotions can definitely serve as weaknesses.</p>
<p>They are natural though.</p>