(August 3, 2017 at 5:07 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: I don't think there is such a thing like uncoditional love, there is always a reason why you love someone. Maybe you love someone because he/she is part of the family, maybe you like someone's personality and so on. Unconditional love may be figurative, but I don't think it makes sense even as a metaphor.
I wouldn't say yes or no to that. I think some individuals can be deluded into thinking it is always good to blindly support others.
I think it is also possible to love someone even if they've done something horrible while still not excusing it.
I think a more realistic naturalistic view of this is to first of skip this cliche all together.
I'd put it like this. I do value our species ability to be non violent and compassionate, that is a provable observation. It is not that humans always default to that, we most certainly do not.
I do not unconditionally love anyone, but most certainly value our species ability to have empathy and compassion.
The truth of our species is we far more often than not think locally and value that which we live in and under and get handed down to by our parents. It is an unfortunate side effect of evolution in that it is hard for humans to see this globe as being one home, and hard for us to see our entire population as the same species sharing the same DNA.
But I most certainly value our species ability to be compassionate, but I also don't ignore our species ability to be horribly cruel.
So I do unconditionally know that evolution produces compassionate individuals, and that I will always value. But I also unconditionally know that evolution produces very cruel individuals. Loaded cliches which are always a "point of view" issue are a distraction of our real biological evolution which is where our species behaviors come from.
