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Ailaros wrote:before this devolves further into a marx v. shas'el slugfest, I'd like to agree with ph34r. No warp presence = no soul. Furthermore in means no emotions.

Tau probably feel the same way about their deaths as the Tandy 300 my parents finally threw away last year. It's also why they have attempted to build a society based on logic and are willing to massacre anybody who gets in their way without blinking.

What else would you expect out of a race that is comprised entirely out of literal psychopaths?

No warp presence doesn't neccessarily mean no emotions, it just means your emotions don't register in the warp. The warp isn't a collection of all emotion in the universe, it's just where most of it goes. The fluff mentions that all human emotions coalesce in the warp, and the same with several other races. The only explicitly mentioned races that don't have a warp presence are necrons and tau. Necrons didn't have a warp presence when they were necrontyr, and they were known for their bitterness towards their short lives and jealousy at the old ones. Those are emotions.
Although, that being said, Tau do have slightly dulled emotions, thanks to the space popes.