This method works best when irrational emotions are evoked.
The affection for a house, and its land, is a deep and inherently irrational emotion.
If anger and irrational emotion gave Fenris the edge, what had made him flee?
"That you're glad I'm not inflicting either myself or my irrational emotions on a fellow employer?"
As we have already observed, the intelligence of these human creatures is very largely subservient to their irrational emotions.
So she went home, feeling guilty about leaving him alone for the holidays, and thinking what an irrational emotion that was.
He explains that the changed humans, devoid of irrational emotions, are offering a better world and asks her to join them.
He said the priority was to provide jobs so people would not be driven by "irrational emotions."
She was relieved, too, that she had a little time without him beside her to sort out incoherent reactions and irrational emotions.
What's more, jealousy is all too often an irrational emotion and not to be dismissed by mere logic.