Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Edwardo Piet]

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?

Yes, I understand.  Alright, so this means that if positive emotions were intrinsically good, we would not be able to decide other things and situations as being good or wise.  From here, my worldview/idea would say that the good value and beauty that comes about in our lives through having no positive emotions would be a no quality standard of good value and beauty.  It would still be good value and beauty, but it would be devoid of the light (positive emotions).   It would be like the words good value and beauty being lit up at the entrance to a dance club as opposed to those words being shut down (i.e. "dead").  Those words are still there, but they are "dead."

Okay fair enough. But it sounds to me that you are saying positive emotions are a necessary but not sufficient condition for a good life. Because positive emotions aren't enough without moderation and wisdom.

But you are also saying that the other values are useless without positive emotions.

Positive emotions can't be intrinsically good if they're not good enough in and of themselves though, TD. Because that's what intrinsically good means.