The Moral law within

[Arouet]

Originally Posted by FallingLeaf

Not always in my experience or the experience of others. An extreme example: killing an animal or person cannot feel remotely good even when you know you're preventing them from incurable pain.

That's where the good comes in. It's not the same good feeling as when you eat some really good chocolate, but you are doing something tough to prevent something worse and that brings a sense of satisfaction. If you didn't do so and continued to watch the animal living in agony, you would feel guilty for not having ended its suffering.

Life is like that: doing the right than can feel terrible and doing the wrong thing can feel great. Life is not necessarily symmetric or commensurate in this way.

Yes, you can feel terrible doing the right thing but good that you did the right thing and you can feel good doing the wrong thing but guilty about it as well.

[FallingLeaf]

Originally Posted by Arouet

That's where the good comes in. It's not the same good feeling as when you eat some really good chocolate, but you are doing something tough to prevent something worse and that brings a sense of satisfaction. If you didn't do so and continued to watch the animal living in agony, you would feel guilty for not having ended its suffering.



Yes, you can feel terrible doing the right thing but good that you did the right thing and you can feel good doing the wrong thing but guilty about it as well.

1st para: It sometimes does and sometimes doesn't but it is possible and well within experience to feel terrible either way.

2nd para: Absolutely - it isn't as simple as doing good = feeling good.