Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

You are right.  To the pedophile, it would be a good thought then.  But to us, it would be a bad thought.  When I mean "acknowledge," I mean how a blind person cannot see through vision.  This blind person could only acknowledge objects.

Re blind persons and perception, you seemed to be only focused on vision as "perception". 

If I close my eyes, I can perceive through smell and taste that brussel sprouts have got to be the work of the DEVIL! (snork)

I know that. But I was trying to make a point here. Even though you can perceive objects through other senses, you cannot see (visualize) them. Let me make it easier for you to understand. Now, I am going to give a religious analogy just to get my point across even though I, myself, am not religious. We can still use whatever analogy we want as long as it gets our point across regardless of how nonsensical the analogy sounds. You, as an unsaved sinner, can never see the magnificence, love, and beauty of Jesus without his holy light within your inner being. It doesn't matter how much you acknowledge the existence of his magnificence and love. You need his holy light in order to truly see his love and beauty for what it truly is.

In that same sense, our positive emotions are like the light of Jesus as they allow us to truly see the beauty, worth, and good value that things and situations hold. Likewise, our negative emotions would be like the opposite of Jesus' light (the inner darkness). They are what allow us to truly see things as horrible, disgusting, etc. So, our positive emotions put us into states of sheer love, joy, goodness, and beauty while our negative emotions put us into states of sheer misery, despair, hate, suffering, agony, and badness. In short, our positive emotions are our own inner paradise while our negative emotions are our own inner hell and absence of the light. Having no emotions at all would be a completely neutral state of mind. It would neither be heaven nor hell for us regardless of what we were to believe otherwise.

To the pedophile, it would be a good thought then. But to us, it would be a bad thought.

Why?

If we judged that pedophile's thought as being bad, then it would be bad from our point of view. But this would be a good thought to that pedophile since it was a thought in regards to raping the child as being a good thing. We would have the bad thought and the pedophile would have the good thought.