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To: gao seng who wrote (32733)	10/14/2001 2:59:21 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I would agree that a lot of people call that "second-hand emotion" love. Lust, sex and love all get tangled up. There are many kinds of love. I can't see how a breathless infatuation could be the only "good" kind. In fact, when people are in that ecstatic state, they frequently make really poor choices. As animals, I'm not sure we actually have that much to say about it. There is a whole pheromone 'dialog' that goes on that we just aren't privy to in our higher brain.

To: gao seng who wrote (32733)	10/14/2001 3:02:36 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I've answered this question before. Love is just a word for a set of feelings we have as human animals. Part sexual lust, part friendship, what we call love is different things to different people. For some people "love" is synonymous with crush, for other people, on the other end of the spectrum it is more nearly synonymous with friendship. So no, there is no such thing as "love" in any absolute sense. There are emotions which people call love, but people can mean very different things by the word.