Understood

"but this does not devalue its purpose of pride as a human emotion."
I don't think having a purpose equals being virtuous.

Canibalism in Donner pass had a purpose. Didn't make it virtuous.

I happen to think every human emotion a person has is useful, as it helped you learn about yourself and or any problems you might be dealing with (or things you are happy with). The only qualifier i add is learning to use them properly (which isn't easy).

Again, on a utilitarian level, I agree. Many things can be useful, but that doesn't make them virtuous. Maybe we're not working with the same definitions.

Robbery is useful to a hungry man.

Theft is not a virtue.

Your emotions aren't just utilitarian. What you do with them could be thought of as such tho.

Maybe they are.

A discontent with the current state is a negative emotion.

Happiness with the current state is a positive emotion.

Each are oriented towards a desired state, and each respond accordingly to how far you are from the desired state.

Seems like a driving force towards what is desired.

Very utilitarian to me.

If you looked at humans as only binary things would i argue that.

Hmmmmm. Not binary. There are positive emotions. There are negative emotions. What other category of emotions am I forgetting?

mixed emotions

so both positive and negative.

that's still two

Emotions are not like gender, there are more then 2 :)

no donny darko. there are only love and hate. go to your room and im calling your mother

I'm telling dad!

Also, never seen that movie.

aemotions, i.e. asexual, having no emotion

name one

apathy?

that's the absense of emotion

I think a state of ambivalence isn't positive or negative (or mixed).

ambivalence is apathy

it's the lack of caring

the absense of emotion

I don't think its apathy.

ok

then it's the combination of possitive and negative emotion

but both are present

im sad myspace went away, but im glad tom didn't become a villian

ambivalent

I don't think those events describe ambivalence.

*isn't trying to spend to much time just talking about ambivalence either*

heh

if ambivalence isn't a mixture of possitive and negative, then its just apathy