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Oscar, our feelings are a response to the entire situation we are in. You said you were enjoying being at the game because of your friends-- that's pleasure. Have you ever felt 100% neutral, absent pain or pleasure? I have not. Anhedonia, absence of pleasure, is uniformly a very miserable, painful experience, a symptom of several different mental illnesses. This idea of having neither pain nor pleasure is a myth, an abstraction, that doesn't happen in our biological reality. Feelings can be of l…