I recently found myself letting my emotions cause me to 'overheat' in a debate in one of my earlier topics and I came to the question, "Should I bring emotion into this"? I believe that emotion plays a key component in the debating itself as it allows for the person to more directly show his opinion on the subject. A response of anger can easily show that they're very hostile toward the other side of the argument while I kind gesture and as acceptance and understanding can present that you're able to directly converse maturely and see things from a different point of view. I for one try to leave my emotions out of less important debates, while they tend to flare in situations of controversial humor, abortion, Homosexual marriage and other more appropriate topics for debate.