(September 29, 2017 at 5:00 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: I was currently focused on the discussion me and Khemikal were having. If you are willing to have this type of discussion, then I would be glad to have it.
YAY! Yes please. I would like that very much. Please forgive me for my childish "YAY!" I do seem to have always come across as having multiple personalities. I'm normally like this. Some would say I was 'larger than life' others would say I was a 'weirdo'.
Anyway, I'd like to start by asking the following:
What is your opinion with regards to my position that if positive emotions are truly intrinsic goodness ™ and if negative emotions truly are intrinsic badness ™ but we also assume that a more intense positive emotion is better than a less intense positive emotion, and a more intense negative emotion is worse than a less intense negative emotion -- then doesn't this lead to your whole theory eventually reducing to an Reductio Ad Absurdum whereby the goal is to have ANY positive emotion, and you don't even need more than one, as long as it's as intense as possible. Say the emotion of ecstasy, euphoria, or bliss. And the idea is to stay in that state as much as possible. Which isn't realistically functional in the real world. And doesn't your theory also lead to the absurd converse -- the idea being to never have ANY negative emotion.... even when things like fear and anger are often very normal and healthy reactions to threats?
