Speaker B argues negative emotions are necessary to make positive ones feel good, while Speaker A questions whether we need to label emotions as good or bad at all. The debate hinges on whether emotional valence is inherent or just something we assign.
Theory number one is the contrast theory. So lots of people believe that bad emotions exist because if they didn't, the good emotions wouldn't feel as good. What do you think?
You know, it actually goes to attribution, which is, to what do we attribute a certain feeling? Do we label it good or bad? So, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't believe that bad or good in terms of emotions actually needs a label.
Well.
Said.
Well said.
Yeah.
I mean, I can see it from someone's point of view that things can seem good when viewed from a certain perspective, and things can seem bad when viewed from a certain perspective.
We need to have the rain to have the rainbows, but that doesn't make the rain bad. That's true.