Emotions Can Deceive

Emotions originate in the faculty of the sense appetite. The sense appetite mainly attracts us to physical pleasure, so our emotions draw us mainly to physical pleasure. Because emotions are grounded in physical pleasure, they ignore spiritual realities. Therefore, emotions can deceive us into thinking that something that is actually good for us is bad for us or that something that is really bad for us is good for us. In order to be more fully human (in order to apply natural law to our emotions), we must think about what our emotions are attracting us toward or moving us away from, and decide whether the perceived good or evil object is objectively good or evil.