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[cosmolinguist]

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

Comments

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but that's the catch. rum and vodka are both very different. Yes, they're both hard liquor, but that's no more than saying that love and hate are both strong emotions. They are, but they are entirely differently flavoured.

Platonic Love, and Romantic Love, OTOH, are not as differently flavoured as rum and vodka, I'm sure you'll agree. To the trained palate, they both have the same base (love) but with different ingredients added on. Not enough to make them different drinks (both are G&Ts) but enough that some might prefer the extra lemon.

Love is a complex formulae, more than just the single ingredient of a hard liquor. Love is a cocktail.

[kwakhed.livejournal.com]

actually, i'm not sure how far apart love and hate are, considering how involved with the subject you have to be emotionally... the very deep knowledge of what makes someone else tick serves as the basis for both... hate needs to be treated as being from the same column on the menu of emotional responses as platonic and romantic love, in my view...