If you could eliminate one emotion from the world, would you? Which one? Why?

If I could eliminate any emotion from the world, I will not. Some people feel that many emotions that people have, such as selfishness, jealousy and one of the seven deadly sins, greed. These feelings, or emotions, have caused many people to even use despicable means to get what they want, power, money, etc. Therefore, if they were given the choice, they will choose to make the world a better place, by removing these emotions.

However, I disagree with them. Sometimes even, these emotions which people feel are bad might have a positive influence on people. For example, being jealous is not necessarily a bad thing. People who are easily jealous, with other people's properties, etc. might not stoop to despicable means to get them. Being jealous might actually even encourage them to work harder to get it.

Moreover, since people are given these emotions, we should not change them, otherwise, everything will not be natural anymore. We were supposed to have them since the very day we were born. Without it, we will not be natural anymore and will have this empty feeling in us, like we have something missing in us, and might even feel uneasy. We will have the feeling that we have lost our identity as humans. Obviously, all these emotions are given to us for a specific reason, although nobody knows for sure what it is.

However, although we might not know for sure what these emotions we have are for, but of course, if we can exercise self-control, we will definitely overcome our evil emotions. Probably, we could even use our emotions to have a positive influence on us. Hence, if given the chance to remove an emotion from the world, I would definitely not as everything will be different and it will not be so real anymore. We should exercise self-control at all times when your evil emotions are going to overwhelm you, then we can really make this world a better place with our emotions still intact.