“Feeling bad” is (I believe) never useful: not to the person having the feeling, and not to anyone else. [emphasis added.]
Not so. Some reasons:
Psychologist Richard J. Davidson has shown that the affective trait Resilience (speedy recovery from bad feelings) becomes maladaptive when extremely high, as it interferes with empathy.
Almost all judicial systems have concluded that remorse helps avoid recidivism in criminals. (I’m opposed to remorse-based sentencing—but not based on its being irrelevant.)
Not so. Some reasons:
Psychologist Richard J. Davidson has shown that the affective trait Resilience (speedy recovery from bad feelings) becomes maladaptive when extremely high, as it interferes with empathy.
Almost all judicial systems have concluded that remorse helps avoid recidivism in criminals. (I’m opposed to remorse-based sentencing—but not based on its being irrelevant.)
For better or worse, judicial systems buying into an empirical proposition is not very strong evidence that the proposition is true.