Re: MD The Transformation of Love

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 21:23:10 BST

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    Hi Rick,

    > RICK
    > Compassion is 'brotherly love'. It's the nonparticularized love that we're
    > meant to hold for all people merely by virtue of their humanity.

    Agree. I love humanity. But I could care less about my next door neighbor
    who is a total cipher.

    > Romantic
    > love entails individuals loving each other on the basis of particular
    > personality. It would seem to me that Romantic love values preexisting
    > compassion and that one cannot experience Romantic love unless they are a
    > compassionate person (see earlier in this thread where Sam was discussing
    > how the highest love would require satisfaction of all the lower loves
    > first). However, the reverse does not hold. You don't need to be
    > romantically in love with an individual before you can feel compassion for
    > all. This would indicate, to me, that romantic love is the higher level,
    > built upon the valued preconditions of social compassion and biological
    > physical attraction.

    Lots of people talk the talk about compassion. But very, few other than
    nuns like Mother Theresa, walk the walk. Most, like Ted Kennedy and his
    fellow travelers, show their compassion by dipping into other people's
    pockets with one hand while beating their chests with the other about how
    much they "care". That's immoral.

    Platt

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