Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

I will go by my god analogy again.  Even without the holy light of god within you, you could still make wise decisions anyway and these decisions would still be recommended.  But it is no way to live without that inner light.

An analogy doesn't answer anything here.

You still have to address how you can make a judgement about that 'inner light' when all you have as a definition of intrinsic goodness is 'positive emotions are intrisically good'.

If that's what goodness is... then inner light doesn't actually mean anything. Your metaphor doesn't work.

It doesn't matter if you could make wise decisions or not. We're not addressing what is possible. We're addressing what is good.

And if positive emotions is what intrinsic goodness is then you have no criteria to choose wisdom or choose a reasonable variety of moderate positive emotions over a longer period of time. Because moderation, variety, being reasonable, wisdom and inner light and metaphors are all irrelevant if all that matters is the intrinsic goodness of 'positive emotion'. If going for pure peak ecstasy is maximum intrinsic goodness and maximum intrinsic goodness is good to have by definition: then you should go for pure peak ecstasy... and wisdom and moderation and all that stuff about 'inner light' is therefore wholly irrelevant.

Perhaps you should say intrinsic goodness is "wisdom and a variety of positive emotions that aren't so intense as to make your life dysfunctional". That seems a more accurate description of what you believe.

Have you ever heard the saying that there is no good without god?  In that same sense, there is no good without positive emotions.  When a person without god in his life still makes a decision to save his own life or the life of someone else, then how does the religious doctrine address this?  I'm quite sure it would be the same answer here as well when it comes to positive emotions being the god in our lives.