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- From: pechever@phakt.usc.edu (Paul Echeverri)
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- Subject: Re: Conditional love? (was Re: God and Science: The Ramblings ...)
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- Date: 24 Nov 92 04:22:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.184257.14894@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu] wyang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William D Yang) writes:
- ]In article <1ehjm9INNjma@phakt.usc.edu] pechever@phakt.usc.edu (Paul Echeverri) writes:
- ]
- ][Impu-Sebek sez that love is conditional with the following example:]
- [My example deleted for brevity]
-
- ]"Uhm... aren't you blurring the line of being 'in love' versus the
- ]line of 'love'? That is, aren't there relevant and rather noticable
- ]differences between being 'in love' with a person and 'loving' a
- ]person. For example, I would feel comfortable saying I'm in love with
- ]my SO; I wouldn't feel comfortable saying I'm in love with my brother
- ](though, clearly, I love my brother very much!).
-
- "Good point, but...what is it about my assumption that's so intensely
- distasteful to you? Simple semantics. "Love". "In love". Fekt.
- Smokescreens.
- "I repeat my claim--all love is contingent on exactly how willing you
- are to have your object of affection revile, betray, and generally
- spit on you. If you still 'love' the person after they've been
- utter shits to you for a good long while, it's not love but infatuation
- and you need help.
-
- ]"I once had an SO that did sleep around on me. It's very clear to me
- ]that I'm no longer in love with her. However, I'm not so sure I
- ]stopped loving her -- I still wonder about how she's doing, and still
- ]hope she does well -- it seems as though there's a difference between
- ]being in love and loving, AND further that this difference makes only
- ]one of the two an actual contingent claim.
- ]"Clearly, if the above is true, it's not the case that ALL love is
- ]contingent -- only SOME love CAN be contingent (I might argue, with
- ]more thought, that NO love is contingent if it's truly "love"... but
- ]that thought needs much more development before I'd be willing to
- ]argue it).
-
- "I eagerly await your response. Here, have a sword."
- Impu-Sebek tosses his opponent, whose name he's missed, a small silver
- sword about three inches long, and settles back to his cocoa mug, which
- is almost empty now.
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