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Is love a romantic creation or a complex development of our mind

Is love a result of human evolution or is it just a created idea

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    Gail . 50+

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    Feb 23 2013: I think that "love" is a word that few agree on meaning. It can mean whatever you think love is. Some think that loving your neighbor means to treat them in ways that I would never want to be treated. I was in Kentucky when I saw a billboard that said, "If you love your child, spare not the rod, lest your child be taken by the Devil". The church that owned the billboard thought that beating your child is a loving thing to do.

    If you speak of romantic love, I think that it's just a hormonal response.

    I would like to see the word "love" removed from our vocabulary. Perhaps we could replace it with something like the word "respect". It would still cause argument about what behaviors are respectful, but they could be more easily discussed because there is no inference of God(s).

    Too many in our cultures grow up believing that they are not loveable.
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      Pabitra Mukhopadhyay 30+

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      Feb 23 2013: I used to say in presentations that 'love is a mental state that encourages you be vulnerable to be hurt and having trust at the same time that you won't be.'
      I have since modified it with another line. 'And in it's truest form it will make you trust again, despite hurt.'

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