RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
September 29, 2017 at 5:33 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2017 at 5:34 pm by bennyboy.)
(September 29, 2017 at 5:16 pm)Hammy Wrote:(September 29, 2017 at 5:11 pm)bennyboy Wrote: No, it's really not. Without the capacity to suffer, we'd be gone in about two generations.
Which is a better outcome than suffering. Non-existence is neutral.
You may think it's better, but it's not intrinsically so. Suffering is intrinsic to life, but the goodness or badness of life is left to arbitrary definition. If I could go through life suffering a little all the time (and I do), I'd still live, because intellectual interest, while not experienced as a hedonic state, still carries value for me which I perceive as good.