Marlon has found that when he gets sad, his girlfriend becomes particularly nurturing and tries to take care of him. while he does not particularly want to feel these emotions, the response it draws from his girlfriend demonstrates the function of emotions.

Why are people in history willing to fight in conflicts against a more powerful oppressor?

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

President jefferson called a "wall of separation between church and state."