(July 8, 2014 at 8:40 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I think we do tend to put love on a higher pedestal than other emotions, and some people want to think there's some big divide between love and lust. Like love is this deep spiritual thing, while lust is a dirty perverted thing.
We put love on a pedestal because we live in an age where live is relatively secure at least until old age, and social positions and social bounds are also relatively stable.
So other feelings associated survival and avoidance of serious risk have become more muted.
