(July 15, 2017 at 3:45 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Wait unconditional love?
And here I spent my whole life thinking that love requires love in return.
"Love" is a loaded word. It is not an either or or yes and no thing.
Our species are social, to that end we value things that benefit us. "Love" stems from that emotion of finding support. That part is normal. What is utopia and false is that it does not take into account our entire species globally.
We value what we are familiar with and fight which challenges our resources or social norms. We far too much think locally, not globally in cosmic time.
I do LOVE my species potential capability of compassion, but they don't always do that. I do not love physical violence. Our species has always displayed great acts of compassion, but unfortunately at the same time great acts of cruelty. Evolution unfortunately does not care which wins.
I am not obligated to love someone I have never met, but even when I dont, self preservation should, but it does not enough, foster the idea that cooperation leads to less conflict.
