Here's another question

[cosmolinguist]

Is the difference between platonic love and romantic love a matter of kind or just of degree?

Comments

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Sometimes emotions (and hormones) cloud the truths of things.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I'd argue there is only subjective truth with emotion. Either you feel something for someone, or you don't. Either you like broccoli, or you don't. Either you get pissed off at the people driving 20 miles an hour in front of you in the left lane, or you don't. None of those changes the personality of the other person, the molecular structure of broccoli, or the fact that someone in front of you is driving too slowly, but they change how they feature in your reality. And that's all there is, 24/7, for a whole lifetime for each of us.

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but just because you FEEL that the person ahead of you is driving too slowly, doesn't mean that THEY ARE.

Just because in your opinion, broccoli is revolting, doesn't mean that it is.

And just because you feel that love isn't love isn't love, doesn't mean that that is the way.

(after all, if it were, then we're both right, there is no use of searching for truth and c'est la mourir)

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

I hold very little faith in what 'most people' can do (naturally all the people who read your journal are exceptional though)

Things may not be able to be boiled down to irrefutable truths, but they can be brought down to most likely outcomes.

Or we could just argue subjectivity, but there's no point to this debate, love is whatever the individual chooses to feel it is, end of story. ;)