RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 1, 2017 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2017 at 1:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 1, 2017 at 12:45 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote:Quote:If anhedonia is the absence of euphoric and dysphoric states, as you just claimed.....and misery is being in a dysphoric state..then being in misery doesn't satisfy your own idiotic metrics..which is a problem you seem to keep running into.
I am confused on what you mean by this. During my miserable state (which was a dysphoric state), it would not be a state of anhedonia since I was simply absent of my positive emotional state (euphoric state). If I was completely absence of both my euphoric and dysphoric state, then that would be anhedonia.
Then you weren't emotion-blind, just as people with anhedonia aren't emotion-blind, regardless of any inept definition you'd apply in service of this shrinking argument. Why do I have to keep treading old ground?
If you propose that there are some people completely incapable of emotion, fine. All this shit about anhedonia and the difference between what it is and what it feels to be...not necessary. It hurts your position rather than helps it. Accepting that there are a handful of people in the world incapable of experiencing any emotion for the sake of argument....so what? What follows -from that-?
A more acurate description of a person -completely- incapable of any emotion..is dead. A dead person. If you wanted to explore the actual term for people with problems that at least circle around your hypothetical set, those exist too..and perhaps you should research that, rather than call it "anhedonia".
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