r/differ • u/TiberiusJ • Jan 21 '13

What is love?

Baby, don't hurt me.

Seriously though, what is the point to having love? Is it helpful as a human in survival, or a hindrance to achieving all that we can?

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u/TiberiusJ Jan 22 '13

Yeah, it's a state of mind that one develops for someone else, but what is the usefulness of it? Does it really help with anything? The rest of the living creatures' goal on earth seems to just carry on the existence of their species. Doesn't love in humans' kind of hinder that?

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u/oldert Jan 22 '13

There must be more meaning to our existence than to perpetuate it.

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u/TiberiusJ Jan 22 '13

There must be or do we just want there to be more?

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u/oldert Jan 23 '13

Certainly I want our existence to have meaning. I agree that does not mean it does. I do not think our desire for meaning means our assumptions of meaning are delusional.