No long entry because I have a throbbing erection-headache. I just want to pose the question that I hope somebody can elucidate for me.
You "unconditionally love" your family, whatever. They haven't done anything exceptional to earn your love, your admiration, yet you do anyway. Why is it this occurs? It seems a bit irrational to me to love a table because it's rectangularly shaped. You love a table because you've had a lot of dinners on it and it hasn't collapsed over the weight of your pot roasts.
I sound like a pretty cold bastard, but this question has been posed since man was capable of thinking. Share thoughts, plz.
4 comments:
You don't unconditionally love your family. You love your family a great deal, however, because family is heavily involved in the propagation of our species. It's hardcoded into us.
Screw rationality.
You forget we aren't wired to think or do everything in terms of logic.
nina is stupid. rationality is based off of what we do. anything we are wired to do or know to do is logical to us because we have no other example. rationality and logic are both based off of what we do and what we are capable of thinking. anything we are wired to do is logical.
Dearest Austin.
Then why is it that people do such irrational things? Why are we so overrun by emotions that we feel compelled to kill our parents in their sleep, or jump off of cliffs to our death? Isn't self-preservation logical?
(I'm sure there's a fallacy in there somewhere, but shutup.)
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