Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[Transcended Dimensions]

Even if my worldview created a world where criminals broke into my home and felt positive emotions from torturing me since it was the good thing to do, then that would still be a good thing and I would still not object to my worldview. 

If different people have different views about good and bad, and all are following what is good for them, then what does this mean?  It means the words good and bad are defined locally, not globally.  This is an exceptionally poor condition from which to derive a moral system.  We need to find those states or ideas which are most commonly held as good, and entrench them as cultural institutions.

"Yeah I raped that girl.  But only because I thought it would feel really, really good.  And it did!" is not a moral argument that I'd consider worthy of anything but a prison term.

Or if you want, you can say that the majority of people take pleasure in limiting the freedoms of those who take pleasure in rape.

I personally do not believe the moral definition of good and bad exists.  I think it is only the emotional definition of good and bad that exists which would have to mean that it doesn't matter whether you are a criminal raping others and feeling positive emotions from that, if you are the police force feeling positive emotions from putting criminals away, or someone helping others, other living things, and feeling positive emotions from that; all of those things would be considered good according to my worldview.  In other words, according to my view, life is all about how you feel and nothing more.  That is, what feels good is good and what feels bad is bad.  It's as simple as that.  Again, it is often times the most simple solutions which are the real solutions that humanity tends to overlook due to their complicated, intellectual/non emotional based lifestyles and mindsets. 

I think my simple solution to having real good and bad value in one's life is the real solution regardless of how simple, absurd, and harmful such a view is.  Nonetheless, I still choose to conduct myself in a moral fashion even though moral values are not real values in my life.  This is because I am not a stupid, reckless person or a cruel psychopath who harms others to feel positive emotions.  As a matter of fact, I am a very kind, gentle, and respectful person.  If you were to ask my mother, she would tell you.  Again, just because I conduct myself in a moral fashion does not presuppose that moral values are real values in my life.  This is due to all of the reasons I have explained which would be all my arguments supporting my worldview.  This means that life really was all about the happiness, sunshine, and rainbows contrary to what Rocky Balboa says in his famous quote.  There was a certain character in a Rocky movie whose name was Tommy Gun. 

If I recall, he was the boxer who just wanted to be happy and have a fun time taking down opponents.  He couldn't handle being the miserable, beaten down opponent.  But Rocky came along and gave him some encouragement.  He said that life isn't all happiness and that it's not about how hard you hit, but how much of a hit you can take and keep on going.  But that was never any way to live or be an artist at all and it would only be a misconception/delusion to believe otherwise.  Therefore, Tommy Gun really had it right all along.  Life was all about the happiness and the only true warrior is a euphoric and happy warrior.  But Rocky is right about one thing though.  That is, we really do live in a world that is very unfair.  It is not a happy world and there are many factors out there that can either take away our happiness or make us miserable, unhappy people.

Again, this is just the absurdity of life.  It's such a shame life wasn't a blissful utopia for all of us.  That would be the greatest life one could live since it would offer our lives the most profound and greatest bliss and it would have cured illnesses such as depression.  The fact is, we do not need a world which Rocky's quote advocates.  Rather, we need the world that Tommy Gun's notion has advocated all along.  This means that life was all about being happy pandas or Teletubbies, so to speak, rather than being these miserable, beaten down warriors who carry on in lives of despair, misery, and just having to attend to things that make us unhappy such as jobs, taking care of children, etc. 

I think a utopia life would find a work around those things that make us unhappy.  To summarize, I don't think life was ever about being a tough warrior since character strength and toughness can never replace the inner light (positive emotions).  This means that it doesn't matter how weak, pitiful, and cowardly we are as human beings; the only thing that is good is feeling good.  As a matter of fact, I would redefine the terms weak, pitiful, and cowardly to instead mean someone who doesn't have their positive emotions or, at least, very little of them due to depression or any other number of factors.  The inner light is the only true strength in life.  The original definition of those terms focus on character strength as being the source of good and bad value in one's life.  But my definition switches the focus to instead feeling good and feeling bad.