RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
September 26, 2017 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2017 at 3:41 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I think suffering is intrisically bad. Suffering in the short run is only justifiable if it decreases suffering to a greater degree in the long run.
Emotions? Emotions are wayyyyy too hard and difficult to define. Plus they all have uses. All emotions can lead to suffering and and all emotions can help decrease suffering. It really depends.
Even if you somehow made a fully valid and sound argument in favor of certain emotions being good or bad..... you wouldn't then be able to pin down or define those emotions accurately enough to actually make any practical use of your theory. What feels like one emotion to one person can be understood as something else to another person.
Besides desire, fear, liking and disliking I'm not even sure I've ever experienced any 'real' emotions. Despite what I may have thought in the past. I think they were just placebos + social conditioning making me believe I felt things that I didn't.
Emotions? Emotions are wayyyyy too hard and difficult to define. Plus they all have uses. All emotions can lead to suffering and and all emotions can help decrease suffering. It really depends.
Even if you somehow made a fully valid and sound argument in favor of certain emotions being good or bad..... you wouldn't then be able to pin down or define those emotions accurately enough to actually make any practical use of your theory. What feels like one emotion to one person can be understood as something else to another person.
Besides desire, fear, liking and disliking I'm not even sure I've ever experienced any 'real' emotions. Despite what I may have thought in the past. I think they were just placebos + social conditioning making me believe I felt things that I didn't.
