Lomed Mkol Adam-
If the essence of these [emotional love] feelings is neutral as you claim, then how can it possibly become converted to either good or bad depending on the circumstances?
It doesn’t become “converted.” By neutral I do not mean it is not good and not bad but a third, middle stage. I mean it is undefined, and good and bad are not relevant to it. It can be “used” in a good way or a bad way precisely because it is not something good or bad.
And you are correct that the desire for eating something which tastes good is not bad in nature. That does not make it good either. It too, like love, is neither good nor bad.
Btw, I’m a vegetarian. I believe that sympathetic feelings for animals are actually “good” feelings, even though the Torah permits one to eat them.
So I will ask you the same question the Gemara asks R’ Meir (Chullin 11b-12a):
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