give anything that pops up inside ur head. doesn't matter.
2007-04-27 00:53:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Wow...well the first thing that popped into my head is it's the reason that you always see parents sticking by their kids when their kids are on trial for horrendous crimes, like that dad who kept saying his son didn't do it, when his son was on trial for the murder/rape or Iraqi civilians...his son later confessed.
Not to say that it's a bad things, of course. I'm a strong believer that what it takes for a child to be well adjusted is this kind of unconditional love, If nothing else, you must know that you are always excepted and cared about by at least one other human being.
On another tangent...I think the female hormone Oxytocin is really interesting. It's prevalent in women, and floods the body directly after childbirth...it's one of the hormones that brings on the euphoria and makes women forget about the ridiculous amount of pain they just went through. It also provokes extremely strong feelings of attachment (unconditional love?) in the mother for her child.- A side note, oxytocin is also responsible for women having a different response to stress than their male counterparts...men have the "fight or flight" thing, women do the "tend and befriend", which makes a lot of sense, considering our species would have gotten no where if women abandoned their children when they either ran or went off to fight. Instead they form groups for protection, (befriend) and try to get the kid to be quiet to avoid detection by predators (tend). Sorry...that was a long side note.
In the end, I'm not sure what love is. I know that I feel extremely strongly attached to both my parents, and we could call that love. I say I love them all the time, but I would be hard pressed to come up with an answer when asked to define what love actually is. In the English language, it's an extremely ambiguous word.
2007-04-27 01:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by elyse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unconditional love is a myth. And it is also undesirable because it will lead to selfishness. Everyone protecting their loved ones to the extent where it starts clashing with others' interests, in case the loved ones go haywire is scary. Wouldn't that lead to chaos? We have to have the sense of right or wrong intact even when in love. There are cases where a mother has killed his own son whom she loved, because he had become a threat to society. Now, that's discerning!
2007-04-27 08:46:06 · answer #2 · answered by P'quaint! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL. If this happens then nothing will be there in the name of LOVE. One should believe that LOVE requires big deals. This can be clear in the example that, if there is everyone good in this world how one will recognise good. So if there is an unconditional LOVE who will say it a LOVE??
2007-04-27 08:30:37 · answer #3 · answered by Howarang 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not been convinced that there is such a thing as unconditional love.
Moreover, in personal relationships, I don't think that this "unconditional" is very healthy (for both sides) or functions as a harmonising factor..
2007-04-27 08:11:41 · answer #4 · answered by Alice in Wonderbra 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that love is something that you have to hold onto if you dont it will leave and you will never get it the same way you did. I mean I've never had a boyfriend and im 14 and i know what love is.
2007-04-27 09:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by Paula J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never seen it or had any experience with it. If anyone knew about it, it should have been me indealing with so amny people. It is an ideal and does not exist on this plane. That's why I cannot imagine it effecting Anything in This dimension.
2007-04-27 07:58:49 · answer #6 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋