Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Edwardo Piet]

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.

Fair enough you can say that there is no good without positive emotions, which are intrinsically good.

But then you can't argue that intense ecstasy of an extreme single positive emotion for a few moments isn't better than the 'wisdom' of choosing a variety of positive emotions over a shorter period of time... without borrowing from values other than intrinsically good positive emotions. Wisdom, moderation and variety doesn't matter if all that matters is positive emotions.

So for you to argue that a variety of positive emotions that are non-extreme is necessary... then you'd have to argue that there are other values like moderation that are important too... and not just positive emotions.