BWprowl wrote:BS. Hope is something you do. You hope that the ring will shut up, you hope that the event book will turn out half-decent. It's an action, if mostly a mental one.
An emotion is defined as: the affective aspect of consciousness; a state of feeling; a conscious mental reaction (as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body. So....
Hope -
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best;
to feel that something desired may happen
Hope isn't something you do. Hope is something you feel you want to happen. As such it clearly falls under the definition of an emotion.
As for compassion, that's a way of life. It's something you treat people (and apparently suck out their souls) with. You can't even 'feel' compassion unless there's someone else in front of you, effectively asking for it. You don't read a story in the newspaper and go "Oh, that makes me feel so compassionate!".
Compassion -
a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
So again, compassion clearly falls under the definition of an emotion. What's it matter if you need to be around someone else to feel compassion? That doesn't make it any less of a feeling. And it sounds like you misinterpreted what Indigo was doing. She was turning the injured Green Lantern's willpower against him to suffocate him, be his "angel of mercy" sort of a thing because she was compassionate to the pain and suffering he was in, despite that it didn't look like he was ready or willing to die.
And don't get me started on the fact that all the rings run on the "emotion" of the wearer...except for the yellow ones, which run on the wearer instilling that "emotion" in others. God, did the writers think this through at *all*?
What are you talking about? The rings don't run off their individual wearers emotion. The wearers are simply the most inclined individuals to wield the power that particular emotion, or in the case of Yellow, to instill that emotion in others. The rings (usually) are charged and run off the power provided by the wearers power battery which channels power directly from the Central Power Battery on each of the Corps home planets.
