RE: Is love real?
September 22, 2021 at 4:10 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2021 at 4:12 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(September 22, 2021 at 4:08 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Well let's put things in reverse. What is 'essential' to love, that without it, love loses its identity as love? What can you take away from love and have it still be love?
The the importance of the happiness of the other person. Turn the Heinlein definition around - can you truly say you love someone if you’re indifferent to their happiness? If the happiness factor is removed, it isn’t love. Anything else - physical attractiveness, sex, fear of being alone - is fair game.
Boru
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