Unconditional Love? Sorry. There’s no Such Thing.
“The notion of unconditional love is a logically fallacious oxymoron. The condition my dear friends is that the object of your affection is of sufficient value.”
People only care about you if you are of value to them.
I wrote a post a few days ago about the difference between being held as affectively vs objectively valuable.
Ayn Rand talks about “.. Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character….” although affective value can be a hormone and neurotransmitter drenched hallucination.
Utility value basically refers to whether the object of affection provides a tangible (objective) good or service.
Alex easy … it’s the difference between value (verb) vs value (noun). The former is subjective because you’re basically measuring an affective response within you. The latter (noun) can be objective especially if you are receiving material tangible benefit. If my Dad gave me an allowance of say $10,000 a month, it’s of objective utility value. Similarly if a nurse…
