Cause and affect... Love?

Question

All things in this life seem to be subject to the law of cause and affect, except Love?

Is Love the only thing that is not subject to this law?

No Love is not an emotion... emotion is a reaction and has a cause.

Love is not a product, because a product implies cause, limitation... Love cannot be conditional, conditional implies cause, and therefore it is not free.

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I like your answer, but you cannot say that it dose not exist, after all what you know is always limited and we are talking about something that cannot possible be in the realm of the known.

What you know is always limited, so love must belong to the realm of the unknowable!

There is only one love; there cannot be many different kinds of love... Unconditional Love!

Example:

If you say you love one person and not another, then you have set a condition, therfor this is not Love. Why? Because Love is always unconditional.

Look I don't need any more answer about love I already know that it is not subject to this law... What I am asking is this, is there anything else that is not subject to this law?

I don't want to bring god into this argument, casue I’m agnostic but, you could say that.

I thought it might be obvious that love is indefinable therefore no point in trying to define it.

Answer 1

Love is free from all effects; love does not need a reason to be; love does not require a logic for its happening; love is free from the beginning, as love is the beginning, the cause of everything.

Love is the cause of the world, as love causes all things to be. But then we forget why things happen; why the spring blossom and flowers bloom, babies to all people are born mothers care, the Sun rise everyday, and sleep at night takes in its embrace the tired and weary mind of a hard trodden traveller in the day when he returns home. There is still hope however there seem to be no reason, which baffles my mind, but I still hope that some day something good will happen in my life, why I do not know, but I still hope. I hope for a better world and expect that one day all harms will be forgiven and all wrongs will be forgotten. I do not see login in many people who just keep living, but may be they love someone far, or may be someone loves them still. Love cause life to be and then to be full to the brim, and from that fullness then all things find their effects.

Answer 2

I think it would help if you would define what you mean by "Love."
That way, we can try and think of other things that are not subject to this "law."

Oh, I see, so only indefinable things cannot be subject to your so-called "law."

How can you ask that question if it is impossible to know what you mean by "Love"?

Consider the following situation, I made it up but anyone who knows people at all could imagine this without too much difficulty.


A man is walking down the street and sees two people that he does not know being mugged. He calls the police and waits until they arrive so he can give his statement but does nothing more to stop the beating.
The same man continues home where he sees his wife (who is physically incapable of child-bearing) being mugged outside their apartment. The attackers are much larger and stronger than him, but he runs and jumps in so that he can save his wife from as much pain as possible.

You stated earlier that it is not Love "if you say you love one person and not another."
So this man cannot love his wife because he did not do as much to help the strangers as he did to help is wife?

I included the bit about the wife being incapable of bearing children to emphasize that it is not some deep-seeded biological drive to reproduce that made this man protect his wife.


I'm even going to guess at how you might respond to this (though in doing so I will obviously change how you respond). I'm going to guess that you will try and tell me that Love has nothing to do with this. That somehow this man's affection for his wife, or happiness in the relationship, or some other thing that you could qualify as "emotion" is the reason for the man's action.


So I say once again, how can we answer your question if the most important piece of the question is something that cannot be defined?

oh, and its cause and effect...

Answer 3

Do you love someone that you've never meet? Do you love someone that you don't even know exists? I don't think so.

Love is (www.dictionary.com) a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

Since you don't understand how you think, you cannot say that love doesn't have a cause. I believe that love is conditional, which means that it does have a reason. The condition might not be a condition of the other person, perhaps the condition is based on something within ourselves, or from God. Some people don't love other people, which means that there must be some reason why some people love others, and some people don't love others.

Answer 4

Is that not the second law of thermodynamics? For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. And you say that love is not subject to this law, and more that love is of only one type and that is unconditional. Love remains undefined. What else is undefined?Will maybe one. Will can be refined to use with any application. Love can be brought to bear as motivation, or as a layer of empathetic understanding. Depends upon the user. Since your definition of love as only existing as unconditional is idiocy, for it allows no contact with reality, which by definition is limiting, and love doesn't exist outside of reality, thus it is limited, and is usually conditional in every sense. There is no such thing as unconditional love, prove a negative. Will shares this podium with love. Highly evolved, and useful, but not without drawbacks. Will is mostly subverted by faith. Love is mostly subverted by intent to do good. Faith is first cousin of murder, and all murder requires will. Love is first cousin to hope, and hope can cause a withering of resolve during crisis. Standing fast for survival is something called love of life, and life is ruled by will. bye.-

Answer 5

That depends on what kind of love you're talking about. There is Parental Love, Love among equals, and Romantic love. With parental love, this theory is very true. My daughter is, and therefore I love her. With the other two, the thoery doesn't work. I love my husband because he is caring, honest, and intelligent. If he wasn't these things, I would not have fallen in love with him. The same goes for my friends. Yes, you might put up with more stuff if you love someone, but that doesn't mean love is a forever and never ending, conquering all thing.

Answer 6

How do you not see Love as subject to cause and effect?

People have a cause for loving others, and that produces effects.

Do you mean that love cannot easily be explained by the laws of physics? If so, I think we'll have to do a lot more research in neuroscience before we understand what causes the brain to fall in love.

Answer 7

To be Honest, I always think that love is just only a simultaneous product of sexual relationships or some mixtures. Like fear, mostly consists of some extra products of unknown(Not as it is said that someone just is reluctant to leave). Emotion is not so simply-ed but mixed.Most things will obey "Cause and affect" law In addition, this law's existing is not even under control by itself or you can tell me its causes and effects.
So I have to claim that I only trust one Law:everything won't obey anything!

Answer 8

How do you fall in love? Words, smile, kiss, touch and so on. A combination of those anyway. Those are what cause love when applied in certain situations in a certain way. Love is the effect. It's the same concept only a bit more complex.

Answer 9

Love is the modern word used to ensure survival of the Clan. When young we choose our mate for their physical similarities to ourselves so that the distinguishing features that seperate us from others continue in our offspring. As per the early stages of human development.
Love in my opinion is a construct to explain why we want to be intimate with each other, it legitimises it. Females have been studied and written about as having to be 'emotionally' involved for intimacy, the males sow their 'wild' oats.
I think 'love' is a form of 'fait accomplice' if we want to survive in society and be whole we must have that 'one special person' in our life to love.
Me personally I place it in the 'instinct' basket and recognise I 'love' some people more than others because they have characteristics physically similar to mine or my family and personality traits that I like in myself.
Mmmmm, think I went over to cause and effect here with 'instinct'.
Great question, makes the grey matter wake up. Darn don't have my old Social-Psych books anymore to go read.

Answer 10

The soreness subsides basically like a great bruise is going down, yet you do no longer forget the type you got the bruise. that's a stable factor - it lets you appreciate what you do no longer pick interior the subsequent relationship. So each and every new relationship you boost the bar till you come across somebody you could placed up with lots of the time.