Love is false, evil and destructive.
This post was not done in sincerity; now that there are five pages of replies, I thought that I should make that clear.
Originally Posted by Aulus Cornelius Lepidus
People always seem to recite the tired platitude 'All you need is love'. How far from the truth that is! Love is a destructive myth that not only ruins lives but also corrupts minds and clouds logic, a far superior -and far safer- method of thinking.
From when they are first attracted to those of the opposite sex, children begin to do insanely foolish things for the sake of impressing others. Often, they will betray friends, forsake duties, and abandon previous habits just to be with another person, and for what reason? Because some chemicals in our brains tell us to.That, of course, is an animalistic instinct that detracts from one's humanity, for do bears and bucks, and all other male animals not vie for supremacy and rights to breed with the best females? Indeed they do, and surely, we humans do not want to associate ourselves with those actions... unless, of course we view ourselves as animals.
I recall a time in my childhood, when I heard a young lady talking about a couple walking to a store or some other place, during which time the male in the couple had his arm around the shoulder of the female. To my confusion, the young lady whom I heard at that time fawned over the action, describing it as 'adorable' or 'sweet' or something to that effect? Why in the world would she do such a thing? Simply, a base, animal instinct drove the male to put his hands on the female, probably because it aroused him in some manner. Where is the magic behind that? Biology tells us to fornicate so that we can reproduce and continue the race, while as children we simply put our hands all over each other because we are not sufficiently developed to create children. Once again, there is no magic there.
Essentially, love is a simple chemical, and it prefers to cloud reason for the sake of emotion. Throughout time, enlightened men and women have shied away from such relationships, and from those same minds that shunned love came brilliant ideas. Society would, without doubt, be a better place without love. It behooves us to rid ourselves of love and treat sex as what it is: a necessary biological function, nothing more, nothing less. If 'love' truly existed, after all, wouldn't everybody remain loyal to their respective partners?
Imagine a world without love: people would not need to worry about loyalty to a specific other, and those who were not sufficiently physically attractive would not need worry about finding a mate. Without love, we would have another layer of distraction removed from our lives. Without love, we could focus ourselves entirely on positive efforts, like solving world hunger, or simply learning effectively from schools. We could free our legal systems from nonsensical divorce cases, and, atheists, you would be robbing the churches you hate so much of another facet of their power. As for theists, without love, people would not cheat on one another, and without that facet of disloyalty and amorality in their lives, you'd be one step closer to saving their eternal souls. Everybody wins, here.
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Re: Love is false, evil and destructive.
when your affections aren't returned, but quite frankly when they are, it makes up for any number of times when they weren't.
