The Nature Of Love

[lupestripe]

Is love just a form of pleasant brainwashing?

Comments

[kitsunefury.livejournal.com]

Nobody can force you to love someone. Likewise nobody can force you not to, and nor can you really choose who you love or don't. It just sort of happens, much as we'd like to have control over that. Goodness knows I'd really like to be able to not love certain people that I do, but... eh. That's how things go I guess.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

So is it brainwashing? Emotional manipulation? If we have no control over it, it implies something sinister, even if it can be the most pleasurable thing ever.