True Love Debate | Simon Blackburn | Proposition (5/6)

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The Motion: This House Would Abandon the Ideal of True Love.

Simon Blackburn closes the case for the proposition, as the fifth speaker of six in the debate.

Motion Defeated.

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[JollySkeptic]

Blackburn was brilliant in this, I would have voted for the motion!

[TheWorldTeacher]

Love is a verb, not a noun. The essence of love is the desire for all living beings to find true happiness. When we want the best for all creatures, then we can honestly say that we love everybody equally. One who appears to love one person more than another in fact loves nobody. True love revolves around sacrificing one’s selfish desires for those of his or her superiors, whether that be one's parents, husband, employer or spiritual master, even if they are imperfect. Should a child disobey its mother just because the mother is flawed? Of course not! This paradigm is applicable to everyone without exception.

[guruprasads]

Love is trash, bitches need cash- Mahatma Gandhi

[XXVIII]

do you think that the concept of obsessive love, comes from the Bible, to become one flesh, and the pursue of living up to the description of love in a biblical manner, according to Jesus I think it was, a symbiosis kind of love, being fused into one being. in love as two becoming one. in a love bubble like water in space.

[tingowealeans]

'...and that's what's wrong with true love in the sense of the motion' - says you Mr Blackburn! You defined it as and decided to only talk about infatuation and obsession - since when is that the definition of 'true love'?

The opposition defined (and so far have made a pretty good (could have been better) case for actual 'true love' as they've defined it and as a couple of the ways it would most commonly be understood by other members of the public (even if opp speaker 1 and 2 themselves had a diff ideas of the definition or significance between them).

The first prop speaker was focused on the unrealistic expectations set by fairy tales and their incompatibility with the modern person in the modern world (who apparently 'deserves' a career, to travel the world etc. smh).

What's the point of these debates if the terms aren't defined at the beginning - each is just talking past each other or building up their own straw man to knock down otherwise - lame!

[pradeepgrpradeepgr]

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[DLG]

Love is what it is not in your mind. Nor in mine. Love is what isn't. What cannot. Give not. Be not. How we dare not feel not. That is Love.