Do you think the humanity would be more productive if we did not feel love?

Question

But instead: a heightened sense of duty coupled with human curiosity and a drive for knowledge.

Though there may be an evolutionary justification for love: It seems to be a very crude and flawed characteristic - a testament to the imperfection of nature... Ants don't feel love, but an innate instinctual drive to work collectively.

We would not feel it would we? We would not be as miserable as people say the world would be in the absence of love. Arguments from that standpoint are coming from a creature that is already trapped in the emotion can't fathom what the world would be without it - we can speculate, but our deductions would be skewed, wouldent they?

Answer 1

I ask you, How do you know that "Ants don't feel love, but [only] an innate instinctual drive to work collectively."

By what authority has anyone to assert that ants do not feel love. Do they feel love the way human beings manifest it, feel it? -- maybe that is the question.

Why should love be solely esteemed a force framed in human terms, without which love can have no existence?

What of the atoms? Why is it that they know to form bonds under certain conditions and with certain other atoms in a certain prescribed configuration? Random? Or not? What is it that oxygen, say, keeps its precise number of 2 and whenever hydrogen saunters along, it enures that it is has sufficient storages -- 2 -- to balance of the oxygen to yield for us Water? And why water? What has told these things, the atoms, to conspire to manifest water in the first place?

Water is essential. Is this a deeper metaphor, that Love is essential? Who could "make it," who could be without either who is in the body or outside the body, respectively?

What makes the atoms of bricks persist as atoms that comprise bricks as opposed to willy nilly taking the forms of, say, aluminum tomorrow or even heart cells?

Love is more than what we perceive it to be. That there is absence of evidence that there is more to love is 'not' evidence of absence that there is more.

Answer 2

Productivity of humanity? That needs to be defined first. And who will do the defining? Someone in a quote civilized country that is wealthy, or should someone from Africa's Darfur make the definition of productivity of humanity? Then of course the definition of love needs to be identified also. Who will define that?

Just a side note, not everybody thinks the world is in a miserable shape. Sure there are alot of things going on in the world, and the media has portrayed alot of gloom and doom, but there is also alot of sunshine and peace.

Ants don't feel love? How can you make such a claim? Only an ant who knows what our definition of love is can say that. And good luck on what our definition of what love is.

Imperfection of Nature? Only man would say imperfection of Nature. My opinion is that Nature is the standard that humankind should base their definitions on, not the other way around.

Answer 3

I have to disagree with the implied notion that love is a crude characteristic, flawed perhaps and stifling at times, but not crude.
Love (in its various degrees and guises) may be the only emotion capable of making us properly human. Without it you might be like a duty-bound decision-making machine.
I feel sure that love, even though it also often causes us to make foolish decisions, also tempers our notions of duty and brute common-sense enough to make our thinking more nuanced than it might be.

This is probably worth all the confusion and wrangling.

Answer 4

NO. Without love the whole of humanity would have eradicated itself more that a hundred millenniums ago!
Take it away from the world now and within seven years we would be in the last battle of mankind. The battle of Armageddon.

Answer 5

I am not sure we would be more productive without love. Shouldn't you "love" what you do to be productive?...I know is different "love", but at the end, love is no more that a preference for someone (something), to feel passion for that person (or thing, job you do)...

Also, what does it mean to be more productive?...Are you more productive when you produce more at work or when you teach your kids about life because you love them?.....

Answer 6

no, people who love what they do are the most productive. If you have no love for your work then you would never go the extra mile.

Answer 7

We would have the opportunity to be more productive, but the reason for the productivity would be gone.

Answer 8

love is just a emotion built into this form called
human.

Answer 9

Everythig "IS" Love! to feel Love is to "think" it came to you from outside of yourself!
Peace and Blessings....

Answer 10

It 'll be better, imagine that we only think with our brains no hearts or feeling. That is better