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To: GPS Info who wrote (42164)	9/25/2013 11:12:19 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"Love is a rational trade?" Well...let us pretend that values and reason are not involved? Let us pretend that values such as honesty, kindness, dependability, lawfulness, and such are not involved. Let us pretend that you and I can make no distinction between a woman of high values and some emaciated prostitute who knocks out her tricks with a drug and then robs them? Or let us be fair and take a woman's point of view. Is it possible for a woman of mature moral values to love the rapist who has attributes that she rationally despises? It seems to me that what you call love ("a biochemical process") is something I understand as sexual attraction? Perhaps I am misunderstanding your meaning. "If procreation and evolution can occur without love, then love is irrelevant" Are we that much different biologically than all the other animals who procreate through some form of sexual attraction.? We don't generally speak of two mice or two foxes mating out of "love". Isn't love a higher order of attachment that has evolved in humans concomitant with the development of our reasoning capacity--and thus the choosing of values? Isn't the ability judge precisely what permits us to choose the better over the worse--although oftentimes quite imperfectly or irrationally? Isn't every rational move we make a question of judgement? Everything from not touching a hot stove to painting your car a new color to deciding you are chasing the wrong woman for marriage?! "If Ayn Rand's views makes some of us more likely to survive a catastrophe then good on her and you. If her views lead to a collapse of social group then I hope only a small set of believers are affected. This is not a narrow criticism of Objectivism. I feel the same way about all economic systems and religious beliefs. I view these social constructs as a battlefield of ideas where there will be winners, losers and also-rans." It does not appear that society has anything to fear from you!