RE: Unconditional Love
August 3, 2017 at 8:31 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 8:36 am by Brian37.)
(August 3, 2017 at 8:12 am)bennyboy Wrote:(August 3, 2017 at 6:09 am)ignoramus Wrote: I think evolution has given a mother a fierce unconditional love for her babies.
Many mothers in nature will fight to the death to protect them.
Yeah but they won't jump into a fire or into the water if they can't swim. I know, because my mother almost let me drown because she couldn't swim.
^^^^^^^ This is why "unconditional" is a loaded cliche. Not even the evolutionary drive to desire to protect something will cause someone to act on that desire, self preservation is also part of evolution.
For example everyone talks of the bravery of the first responders of 9/11, but it never got widely reported that many fire experts watching it and after had made the comments that if they had been making the call, they would have told them not to go in.
I had a former landlord who was a x firefighter whom told me when he saw the heat and all the damage being caused he highly suspected, which ended up happening, that the metal support beams would soften and break.
And even with say a dangerous job like lifeguard. Back in my teens I took a pool lifeguard safety class. Certainly not as dangerous as say an ocean lifeguard. But in both cases you ARE taught to try to calm the victim so that they don't panic and pull you under as well. You are also taught that if they are panicking and have a grip on you to break it off. Point being no point in two people dying.
Parents even with a desire to protect will not always do it because of their own self preservation for the same reason a lifeguard may have to break off contact, or why a firefighter wont go into a burning building. Even on issues of say hostage taking in a domestic dispute, cops while trained to communicate, will not always go into a building off the bat.
So everything is conditional, even with some individuals their is more of an unselfish personality that would have the intent to do something, even if they cant always pragmatically do something.
Alot of prey for lions for example, will not protect a calf all the time even if one is sure they would want to. Often they will TRY to surround the young ones, but if that calf get's separated the adults may not confront the lions because their own self preservation kicks in, even if they have that desire.
