For dickhead nerds - yes, I'm not an expert in English, but this is a real text, previously sent to a person of some significance.
Mr. X. Why did you decide that human love must be "disinterested"? Who told you this? God? Is this statement scientifically proven or in any other ways? How dare you put your statements from such an unexplored area as human feelings as absolute truth for others?!!! Aren't you taking on too much???
In …, You confuse human love with absolute love philosophical dogma that is not even confirmed to be the truth!
I believe that no love in our world can be selfless.
Example 1: Love to a child
Let's imagine the situation. A child is on the verge of death from a serious but curable disease, to save him - money is needed. If the parents don’t find the money, the child will die. Money and love to the child in this case are interconnected. Therefore, self-interest is vital, otherwise the child cannot be cured. When parents ask for help, they don’t care about love for someone else except their beloved child - they are driven by fear, because with each second there is less and less time for salvation. How do you think I know this? My older brother was on the verge of death in infancy - my mom told me everything in detail. Love for a son and self-interest are interconnected things, at least because people are material beings and cannot live without certain material things, otherwise they will simply die.
Example 2 Love between a Man and a Woman
Have you ever fallen in love with an old woman, ugly from her youth, foul-smelling, of old age, 95-100 years old? With a face disfigured by wrinkles and a withered body? Imagine the situation: the woman sincerely loves you. Does at least one old ancient woman have at least one chance to please you and become your wife? To be loved by you? Probably not.
Besides, she cannot give birth to a child for you. I don’t know for you but many men really want to have children. Because love for their unborn children is genetically embedded in many - but what is this if not a selfish attitude towards a woman and her ability to give birth.
Unfortunately, mutual attraction that is essentially mutual self-interest(not necessarily physical only) and love between a man and a woman are tightly connected to each other. And therefore, no intergender love is absolutely pure, sincere, i.e. not tied to something material - it is always selfish.
Example 3 Your own Love to people is also selfish!
If you do something good for people with pure motives(charity or something like that) - they are still selfish as you get positive feedback from your brain and it makes you feel happier - where is, in your own words, the “disinterest” here? No need to be hypocritical! You are very selfish!
Similarly, we can review any other examples that show that even the purest love that ever existed on Earth given by God to man has never been and cannot be sincere and selfless! Because love is a positive feeling, and people like to do something that makes them feel more positive, happier, confident, so this feeling is selfishness in its purest form!
I want to note separately, Mr. X, your … are very reminiscent of orders(e.g. love ones) as even your wording in a row of cases is in the imperative mood. So are you sharing your opinion(that is not necessarily to be true) or teaching people how to live, imposing your vision as absolute truth?
