Just My Feelings

A: I feel that it's morally acceptable to kill five year old children.
B: Oh my wizard-god! That's terrible! Let me explain why that is wrong.
A: Oh no, don't bother. It's just something that I feel intuitively.
B: Still, I think that maybe you are thinking the wrong thing.
A: I AM NOT THINKING! THESE ARE MY FEELINGS!!! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!
B: (Stage goes dark and A freezes. Light shines on B) It seems that A is communicating their thoughts as feelings in order to prevent other people from challenging their thoughts. Either that or they are lacking any confidence in their own answer, so they try to communicate it in the weakest way they can. What sad times are these when a growing number of people seek to replace 'think' with 'feel;' I wonder why it is that people no longer want to face having their thoughts questioned. Especially as philosophers, they should seek to put their ideas out to the public not hide their thoughts behind the shroud of private and personal emotions and intuitions. Some great philosophy teachers once co-authored a writing checklist (rule 20) where they expressed that people should "never use 'feel' where 'think' will do. I think we ought to follow this wonderful piece of advice. Notice that I do not think we should try to do this; there is do and do not, there is no try.