[chezlaw]

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Explaining love as giving so that we will later recieve is extremely misleading.

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I agree that this is in no way an explantaion. However, "love" (ignoring for the minute the inifinite ways to define it), can be "evolutionary explained" as having a big part in a deep and complex sharing system between individual human beings, which might be critical to the relative success of our partiulcar species as a whole (there are many ways to explain why it is so, and quite a few psychologists do this). To be quite honest here, I'm not particularly enthusiastic about most "evolutional psychology" explanations, as they can indeed be quite confused and misleading. Regardless, they can still be consistent in most senses with the theory of evolution.

[/ QUOTE ]An outbreak of agreement between us, I hope. I wasn't suggesting that the reason for love was simple, there could be complex reasons as to why its beneficial for our species/genes.

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