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We are definitely not just taught to think pain is bad and happiness is good. I mean we learn by being rewarded with positive feeling or saved from negatives feelings, or being punished by having positive feelings taken away or being subjected to negative feelings, so how can we be taught how to think of feelings. The body might be able to be taught to conjure up other feelings in place of pain when pain would normally be experienced. For instance pain killers actually change the perception of pain, but the feeling itself I can't see ever being good. I mean the definition of bad could be based on that feeling.
I think feelings are just absolutely good or bad, and even though I'm a strict non believer in anything that doesn't have to do with the physical world I can't see how a feeling can just be bad. I don't know. I'm bad at explaining things, but if anyone else has thought about it before and gets where I'm coming from I'd like some help. I can imagine how consciousness is a product of the physical world sort of, but when one is conscious of something that has a meaning (like bad), and the meaning just comes from nothing, just the essence of the feeling. It seems like a mystery.
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