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    Whatever you all my write, love is still a hormone controlled feeling (and thus to a degree controlable) designed to help humans reproduce. Love is biological, that about caring for your partner is again biological as we want our offspring to live up to our expectations etc. etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Innocentius
    Whatever you all my write, love is still a hormone controlled feeling (and thus to a degree controlable) designed to help humans reproduce. Love is biological, that about caring for your partner is again biological as we want our offspring to live up to our expectations etc. etc.
    And how you associate that with for example love towards your family?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha
    And how you associate that with for example love towards your family?
    The love of your closest family... isn't that one quite obvious? A normal person from a normal family will feel love towards his/her relatives as they are means of surviving and keeping your own offspring safe. Loving your parents can be explained to a degree by thankfulness, but also because historically grand parents have a tradition of babysitting their grandchildren, so that's on a more psychological level rather than biological. And finally, loving your children is more natural than anything: biologically, our meaning in life is to reproduce, so not taking care of our offspring would be rather stupid wouldn't it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Innocentius
    The love of your closest family... isn't that one quite obvious? A normal person from a normal family will feel love towards his/her relatives as they are means of surviving and keeping your own offspring safe. Loving your parents can be explained to a degree by thankfulness, but also because historically grand parents have a tradition of babysitting their grandchildren, so that's on a more psychological level rather than biological. And finally, loving your children is more natural than anything: biologically, our meaning in life is to reproduce, so not taking care of our offspring would be rather stupid wouldn't it?

    Love is all in our heads and, more importantly, in our genes.
    But previously you stated that love is just biological phenomena.You are contradicting yourself. I think most of us know what many of our feelings are based on biologically, should the importance of something be less if we can actually understand and analyze it, as i seem to sense from your earlier reply?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha
    But previously you stated that love is just biological phenomena.
    Yes, and I stuck to that. Oh yes, I mentioned it mig be psychological as well, but hey, our brains aren't very biological after all, they're just organs.

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    You are contradicting yourself.
    I don't see where I've contradicted myself. Could you point that part out for me?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha
    I think most of us know what many of our feelings are based on biologically, should the importance of something be less if we can actually understand and analyze it, as i seem to sense from your earlier reply?
    All I'm saying is that love is - more or less - optional.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Innocentius
    but hey, our brains aren't very biological after all, they're just organs.
    Organs aren't biological now?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha
    And how you associate that with for example love towards your family?
    We talked about this in a science class I took a couple years ago. In a broader sense, the biological drive Innocentius mentioned has to do with passing on your genetic code. Greatest love therefore goes to children; however siblings and parents also share much of your DNA, so looking after their welfare also helps increase the chances of your genes being passed on.
    edit: and in an even broader perspective, looking after the good of your community or nation improves the support structures and culture that will protect and nurture those born with your genes, and can also be biologically beneficial.

    I think all of that is definitely part of it, but I'm enough of a romantic to think there's more to the picture, and I tried to define it in such a way that it would incorporate biological and/or emotional reasons.

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