RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 2, 2017 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2017 at 12:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm very receptive to the idea that positive experience is generally a good thing, and that our experience of positive emotions is a common, though unreliable, indicator of the moral status of some x as we see it. This is hardly earthshattering, worldview changing information, however. I'm not entirely sure how a profound comment on morality could really be arrived at through recognition thereof. We all know that "good people" don't like the icky shit....but do they dislike it because it is icky, or is it icky because they dislike it? Your position insists on the latter. I disagree. I think that it's both, but that..if we were discussing delusions and meaningful blindness...then it would be the advocates of the latter, such as yourself..that have manufactured poor moral assessments. You are deluded in thinking that the things you find icky are actually made icky by you finding them to be so. You are blind to the suffering of the victim if you cannot identify the satisfaction of a sex offender as wrong. You are deluded if you believe that your own personal satisfaction demonstrates the good moral nature of your actions or experience, and blind to your own human condition if you cannot identify a situation in which you would very much enjoy doing some wrong thing.
If your "artistic view" is a rehash of dragonball z fanboi-ism you can spare yourself the trouble. I would suggest that the totality of human emotional response is beyond the scope of your love of dragonball z to competently, let alone profoundly, describe. We certainly wont learn any non-trivial thing about morality from being subjected to a lifted plot synopsis, by you, of your favorite episodes and themes.
If your "artistic view" is a rehash of dragonball z fanboi-ism you can spare yourself the trouble. I would suggest that the totality of human emotional response is beyond the scope of your love of dragonball z to competently, let alone profoundly, describe. We certainly wont learn any non-trivial thing about morality from being subjected to a lifted plot synopsis, by you, of your favorite episodes and themes.
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