RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 1, 2017 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2017 at 4:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 1, 2017 at 3:01 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: First off, I am still sticking by my idea that whatever situation we feel positive or negative emotions from is the situation that is good or bad from the individual's point of view. Now, the positive emotions themselves would be sheer goodness since they are like the inner light to our being and lives. But that does not mean my model would say something such as: "Go rape a child since that is something good."-and yet your model does say that. You're uncomfortable with it...but so what? Is your model accurate or not?
Quote:My model doesn't focus on situations.Then I doubt it's value in situational ethics or morality.
Quote:Rather, it just focuses on the idea that our positive emotions are the inner light. This means that we just do whatever. Personally, I would still make the choice to not only make decisions that would promote my positive emotional experience, but would also make those types of decisions that wouldn't get me into trouble such as doing drugs.What's a little trouble for The Real Good? Just doing whatever is probably the laziest form of hedonism imaginable, incapable of achieving even it's own self stated goals. This is not a system of morality in any case, of real goods or real bads or even fake or deluded ones. It's just pleasure seeking approached ammorally.
Try ethical hedonism, then you won't have to twist your scrote into knots for being on the side of sex offense as goodness.
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