RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 2, 2017 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2017 at 12:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 2, 2017 at 11:54 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: Alright, I will just say these brief things then:This is still as plainly and demonstrably untrue as it was the first time you asserted it. Obviously, there is more than one way to become aware of the good and bad qualities of life. Your continued misapplication of a fundamentally dubious analogy does nothing to discredit a reality with which it is in contradiction.
It is only through pain (dysphoria) and pleasure (euphoria) that we become aware of the good and bad qualities of life just as how a sighted person is able to visualize the color red.
You may prefer some specific way, you may think it's the best way, but that's all you can do in the face of the fact that people in this thread, all over the world, and for all of recorded history, have leveraged things other than their euphoric and dysphoric states to both become aware of and describe what is good, or bad. I think that your preferred method of distinguishing a moral good from a moral evil is hilariously inept. You further erode any credibility with the inanity of both claiming it to be the only way...and the manner in which you've attempted to establish that this is so.
"I think that making me feel good is the only True Moral Good"
-Why do you think that?
"Because it makes me feel real good."
O-kay...............
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