> No, you've missed the point frum tried to make. Cynthia is stating that joy (or love, or whatever) is preferable to fear as a motivation; frum agrees. frum's question was if one of them was _better_ than the other. Nobody (not even frum) has even attempted to answer that question yet (at least not in this thread). I'm not completely sure that it _is_ answerable.
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> I think frum only raised the question because the original quotation implied that one was inherently better than the other, and he questioned the basis behind it. I'm not sure about that, though.

That's the problem I've been having with this. The only possible issue I've ever seen raised, in the original quotation or by Cynthia, was one of motivation. It's specifically worded as such. Unless you're into neurochemistry or something, emotions can't be objectively compared. The closest you can get is looking motivation and reaction. If you're not looking at those, the question of "Is the emotion of fear objectively better than love" is a non-issue, lacking in criteria for any possible judgement. It serves only to muddy the water.