(September 29, 2017 at 6:43 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote:(September 29, 2017 at 6:38 pm)Hammy Wrote: What you have said is correct but not relevant.
My point is that if positive emotions are intrinsically good then when you are at your most miserable times in your life your aim is to get maximum positive emotion. And it need not be many positive emotions. And not even for a long time. Because you have no criterion to decide if multiple moderate positive emotions over a long time is better than just one extremely positive emotion for a few moments.
But, by this, you are saying that my life was still good and beautiful since I have made a decision where I have decided that it was better for me to get the help I needed rather than to just give up on life entirely. This wouldn't be any real good and beauty in my life.
No I'm not saying that. I'm saying that your life is miserable so the correct thing to do is to stop feeling miserable and start feeling positive emotion by any which way you can. And the greater the intensity of the positive emotion the better. But also the longer you experience the positive emotions for the better. But you have no criterion to decide which is better. You also have no way to decide that two positive emotions are better than one if one of them is more intense than both of them together. So you have no way to decide whether 10 positive emotions experienced mildly for the rest of your life is better than intense ecstasy for 10 minutes. Do you understand?
