interesting question twitch. I can say that of the people that i know, the folks who are the most emotional, argue thier positions at a retarded level. That is not to say that i don't get emotional. When i get emotional about a subject, i come back to it later. During the time away, i usually stew on it and mostly can get to the principle of an arguement after the emotion subsides.

on the other hand, with some folks, a little information goes a long way. When they are confronted with an arguement that they cannot, or are too lazy to reasonably counter, they turn to insults and hostility. It is human nature.

i'm not sure, however, that one can draw more than a tacit correlation between the emotional debator and the un/misinformed debator. They seem to have periods of outbursts, but for perhaps different reasons. Either way, when one debates emotionally, one debates with less than his/her potential.

just the observations of a nobody.