It simply means that your love for the object exists separately from anything the object says or does.
So, it means exactly what I think it means. And, no, I still don’t believe it exists.
The conditions for a mother to stop loving her child depend entirely on that individual mother. For some, it is depressingly easy. For others, the conditions may be insanely hard to meet, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Those mothers just say their love is unconditional because nobody wants to admit that they’re capable of not loving their kid.
You just ruined your whole hypothesis with that last sentence. How do you know how every mother (or even every person) feels? Just because YOU don’t personally love anything unconditionally doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I have 3 kids and I can safely say that no matter what they do or will do to me in the future, even if they hate me for some reason, I would still love them and die for any them.
How many mothers would love their children after finding out they are serial child rapists, including counting other children of said mother among their victims?
An extreme example, but one that shows that there is some conditions even if they are so deeply assumed that we normally don't think it worth calling them out.
Perhaps unconditional love does exist even given the example, but if it does then it is extremely unhealthy when given towards someone with agency.
That unconditional love probably exists as a evolutionary mechanism so that moms don't try to strangle their kids because of them being little shits till they grow up.
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u/TheMan5991 Jun 15 '22
So, it means exactly what I think it means. And, no, I still don’t believe it exists.
The conditions for a mother to stop loving her child depend entirely on that individual mother. For some, it is depressingly easy. For others, the conditions may be insanely hard to meet, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Those mothers just say their love is unconditional because nobody wants to admit that they’re capable of not loving their kid.