The Love Question

Our man Mike Barskey is moonlighting over at FTL. Check it out!

Hey! Who asked to be outted?!

I'm kidding, of course. But it is rather embarrassing because my post was really weak. Intentionally, actually. From experience, I don't think many posts on FTL are very deep, so I said what I said while disregarding that I don't think love is an axiom. In a later post, someone else said as much, I think.

If anyone is interested in the topic, let's continue it here. Is value an axiom? If so, it isn't one conceptual step to get to love - love is an incredibly complex concept, relying implicitly on other complex concepts life self, property, ownership, emotion, values, etc.

Also, I don't know anything about the Vasso Love Gene.

I don't think, offhand, that value has to be taken axiomatically. I think value can be proposed and demonstrated to be true.

I don't think of love as an incredibly complex concept. I think it is a single word used to describe what are in fact several distinctly different things.

See ye-ol-Conrad's Wittgenstein quotes on linguistics.

To answer the question, how's this?:

Love is happiness for which one can find an intelligent and purposeful cause.

Conversely, hate is misery for which one can find an intelligent and purposeful cause.

That's the best I can come up with.

Although, I think there may be some problems when considering masochists: they love those who cause them misery. Can it be said that misery causes them happiness? Is happiness an antonym of misery? Is misery a synonym of pain? Or are pain and pleasure separate from misery and happiness?

Necromancer.

Hey Baldin, welcome!
What brings you to Limi?

Thanks. I found my way to QuestEon's blog from FTL, and from there to here, regarding the FDR controversy.

Welcome! Bunch of cool people hang out here...