Werther vs Albert: Passionate Human Emotion

This is another one of those Wow-I-Think-Everyone's-Been-On-One-Side-Or-The-Other conversations, like Cassius and Brutus's disagreement over loyalty and principle.

( Werther vs. Albert: Passionate Human Emotion )

So, discounting that the passage is obviously more in favor of Werther with its first-person bias, my question is who do you agree with?

[Poll #1105772]

I made that limited because obviously the right answer lies somewhere between the two. (It always does). But if you had to pick one . . .

Also, discuss. Answers should have justifications-- and there's more going on there than just the issue I mentioned in the poll itself. Let's get a dialogue going; I feel like talking about this stuff in philosophical hypothetical.

Werther vs Albert: Passionate Human Emotion

This is another one of those Wow-I-Think-Everyone's-Been-On-One-Side-Or-The-Other conversations, like Cassius and Brutus's disagreement over loyalty and principle.

( Werther vs. Albert: Passionate Human Emotion )

So, discounting that the passage is obviously more in favor of Werther with its first-person bias, my question is who do you agree with?

[Poll #1105772]

I made that limited because obviously the right answer lies somewhere between the two. (It always does). But if you had to pick one . . .

Also, discuss. Answers should have justifications-- and there's more going on there than just the issue I mentioned in the poll itself. Let's get a dialogue going; I feel like talking about this stuff in philosophical hypothetical.