Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

I still see no justification for the claim that emotional value judgement and "thoughtful" value judgement are in all cases separate, or that one is real and the other is not, or even that they are separate in the case mentioned above.

Meanwhile, what I -do- see in that study is that what you would characterize as an "emotional value judgement" - say..chemical dependence, or eating disorders.  Somehow, in your system...a real good thing™, provided that the brain is positively rewarded for this behavior.

You know what I think...I think you googled "hedonic" and pasted whatever you thought would lend your ramblings credence..and never bothered to read the paper at all.

My worldview might seem demonstrably false due to the idea of eating disorders and whatnot, but aren't things that sound absurd often true?  Just because my worldview sounds absurd does not mean that it is false since there are so many things that are absurd in this life that are true.  It is just the absurdity of life rule.  There are certain things in this world such as people dying from deadly viruses and, even though this is an absurd thing, it is real.  So, life isn't perfect and it seems to me that you are expecting a certain value system to be the real value system which is why you see my value system as being false.  But life doesn't always meet our expectations and we don't always get what we want in life.  My value system might certainly be one that doesn't work well for humanity, but, then again, there are many absurd things in this life that just don't work out for us, but said things are true.  Instead, humanity tends to delude themselves of such things because they simply do not like them and wish to have things their way.