Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[bennyboy]

They are intrinsically positive and negative TO US. They are still intrinsically as opposed to extrinsically good or bad TO US because they are NOT intrinsically good FOR anything (that would be a contradiction), even us.

So child rape is intrinsically good if the rapist perceives it as a positive experience? I have difficulty viewing the world in this way.

They are good in and of themselves. As they are the very part of us that are good or bad. It's our actions that are good and bad for our emotions. Or to put it more accurately: other things are only good and bad when they ultimately impact our emotions. Because our emotions themselves are good and bad and valuable in and of themselves.

I think there's conflation posing as reasoning here: we use the word "good" to talk about feelings we like, and then say that feelings are intrinsically good. Sure you could say that, since the experience of feelings is intrinsic to the human condition. But a five year-old has already arrived at this understanding: "I feel happy when I eat a carrot, but my sister cries when my mother makes her eat carrots. We like different things. I think carrots are good, and my sister thinks they are bad."

What's the position, and where's the value in holding it? What am I missing here?