**For Clarification**
By saying that pessimism and optimism are analogous to bad and good, what do you mean? Do you mean morality? Pleasure and pain? Usefulness? Maybe I'm trying to be too precise...do you just mean "nice things" when you say good and "not nice things" when you say bad (regardless of what that might mean to different people)?
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