@Nanashi @7 @11112011 @laurel @p @coyote @rats @Moon that's projection and you know it, motherly love is objectively an infinitesimally small part of the whole. But yes, mothers can be smothering cunts.

@Nanashi @7 @11112011 @laurel @p @coyote @rats @Moon Well maybe I misunderstood you, when I see "Motherly love is evil" I see a contradiction, love, motherly or not, is never evil. True love. True love is letting go and finding peace. It is not war, oppression, or any such thing.

@Jazzy_Butts @7 @11112011 @laurel @p @coyote @rats @Moon Romanticism and post-hoc contextualizations. Motherly love is functionally a mechanic of investing into her asset present in the child; and in cultural terms, it reifies the object-relation between parent and child.

@Nanashi @7 @11112011 @laurel @p @coyote @rats @Moon You're talking about loves mechanical properties but that does not fulfil the experience of having felt love. I am in agreement with your assessment of the logical mechanisms which playout within the engine of the sports car we call love, but knowing how it works and riding in it are two different things.

@Nanashi @7 @11112011 @laurel @p @coyote @rats @Moon I thought since you said motherly love is evil you meant that their experience was evil, but I see now you meant their actions were evil, actions you claim spawn from the feeling, rendering the feeling itself evil. I disagree that the feeling itself is evil, but I understand well that wicked actions can spawn from feelings of love.

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@Nanashi @7 @11112011 @laurel @p @coyote @rats @Moon And yet that last line isn't quite right either to me, because it is never love that spawns wicked actions, it is always jealousy, or fear that gets mixed in with the pool thus corrupting it. And so again it seems to me love is incapable of being evil.

@Jazzy_Butts @7 @11112011 @laurel @p @coyote @rats @Moon The priorities or conditions of the relation within which love springs forth are what I call evil here.
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