To clarify my point, my intent wasn't to assign value to thinking emotionally, but to suggest that being candid and open about differences such that they exist

To clarify my point, my intent wasn't to assign value to thinking emotionally, but to suggest that being candid and open about differences such that they exist is an important step to working productively despite, or even because of them. That being said though, you bring up an addendum I would counter that although you're right to say there is potential danger to emotional thinking, there's potential danger to purely logical thinking as well; to bring this back to my original statement in which avoiding confronting these differences in an "easy to work with" fashion reduces the chances of moving even a little towards a middle ground to 0.