What are aims that are worthwhile to pursue?
They must be directly perceptible in order to be existents.
There must be an immediate benefit realizing these aims which must be directly perceptible too.
Their realization must neither cause unease nor add to pre-existent unease but must either reduce or eliminate pre-existent unease.
If there is the slightest uncertainty whether the realization of an aim may be beneficial then it is not worthwhile to pursue because it is not based on
valid knowledge.
Therefore only an aim which is the cessation of what is already validly known and which is validly known to be or to cause or to add to unease can be based on valid knowledge of the benefit of its realization. Why? Because it is the current presence of that which is or causes or adds to unease so that the cessation of its presence and the resulting reduction or cessation of unease
necessarily is beneficial.
In contrast to these aims that are worthwhile to pursue aims that are the realization of what is not validly known necessarily are a case of doubt because the realization strived for is based on speculative thought and belief in benefits which are merely objects of hope. Such aims are not worthwhile to pursue.
This shows that the buddhist approach to strive for the realization of cessations (negative phenomena) necessarily is a valid approach provided unease and its causes are
validly known.