Thinking as Feeling

“Is evil-doing … possible in default of not just ‘base motives’ ... but of any motives whatever … Might the problem of good and evil, our faculty for telling right from wrong, be connected with our faculty of thought?” Hannah Arendt

Feeling doesn’t negate thinking
but presupposes it.
Without passion, an action
is only reaction,
and what is mistaken for thought,
merely afterthought.

Inability for thought
follows loss of feeling.
Numb senses increase
not the capacity for pain,
but rather the ability
to inflict it: without thought,
without feeling.