Absolutely bath, I agree with that completely. But as emotions go I also think its important to acknowledge an emotional response rather than just say "I'm not going to have one" because if you have to force yourself past the point of comfort in order to not feel something then perhaps you should be looking at the underlying cause of such a strong emotional reaction and deal with that, or in turn you could just be swallowing an emotion rather than stopping it. As a wise person once told me you cannot just stop a behaviour, you must replace it with another. Which is why when we have children and they are behaving in a certain way and we simply say "NO" they don't understand and don't often oblige because they do not know what they should be doing.

If I have a crisis sometimes I have an emotional response, and other times I don't and if I do I don't dwell in it but I do analyse it. And then I work on whats needed to get me out of whatever situation I'm in and work on that silver lining, and in my experience there is always one.

And no having an intellectual discussion, is not over intellectualising. Being smug about your intellect is what I hate about over intellectualising because to me if you need to be so smug you probably aren't even close to there, and smugness usually stems from some sort of other underlying issue.