The phrase 'deliberation related to emotions and values about what’s good and bad' has a potential ambiguity about whether 'emotions' is to be understood generally or as also being about 'what's good and bad.' I want to know the best ways to disambiguate this sentence.
I see that is possible to disambiguate this if one intends the former meaning by using 'deliberation related to emotions and (related) to values about what’s good and bad,' (where I mean 'related' is optional I think) and if one intends the later meaning by using 'deliberation related to emotions about what’s good and bad and values about what’s good and bad' or perhaps 'deliberation related to emotions and values each about what’s good and bad'.
Disambiguating when you intend the first meaning seems to work pretty well, but the second case seems a bit cumbersome.
What do you think about using a comma? I know its not really by the book, but it seems to get the meaning across well. First meaning: 'deliberation related to emotions, and values about what’s good and bad' Second meaning: 'deliberation related to emotions and values, about what’s good and bad'
Is there any other better way to disambiguate that I'm not thinking of?
Follow-up: On second thought, 'deliberations related to', which is the first part of the phrase in question, isn't important to my question and just adds unnecessary complication to the question. I would edit it out and change the sentence to something like this:
I am talking about emotions and values about what's good and bad.
so that the sentence, besides the ambiguity I'm asking about, is clearer; however, I don't want invalidate the answers already given.