(November 14, 2013 at 2:57 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Is love just friendship + sexual attraction? Assuming you were straight and single, if your best same sex friend was magically turned into an attractive member of the opposite gender, would you automatically be "in love" with him/her?
This analysis seems to cheapen the concept of "love" that people have because love then only results because of involuntary biological instinct.
Love is many different things.
But I think you'll find this is the best catch-all definition of love: 'Really REALLY liking something.'
... I can't really answer the 'same-sex friend into attractive other gender' thing... so, sorry?
People only eat because of involuntary biological instinct. I don't find that cheapens my enjoyment of food at all
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
