Is lust a thought, or is lust more or less instantaneous? Does lust even give you space to think? In fact, if you could think in the moment of great lust or anger, then you would act better.
Thought has its uses. The emotional ones need to be the thoughtful ones, and the thoughtful ones need to graduate into meditativeness.
I have repeatedly said that sentimentality is not sensitivity. All emotions have just one thing at their core: preservation of the little, petty self.