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[–] syntaxaxe 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Love is a biological lie.

Sure. "Love" is just neurochemicals floating around in your body, which are there because it was evolutionarily useful to your ancestors.

However, that's the same process by which you feel something like hunger. Hunger is a lie. The pie isn't really delicious and the chicken didn't really hit the spot, at least not in any objective sense. Yet you still eat, can still enjoy food, and your experience of life would be significantly worse off without it. Same thing with all your other cravings and emotions and drives, which you find enough reason to satisfy that you spend your days satisfying them. The feeling of satisfaction from socializing and sharing ideas is a neurochemical process, likely a trait that has been passed on genetically because those early hominids who had the trait were better at forming group strategies for hunting and tribal defense... yet here you are, responding to people on Voat with your ideas and words.

So, what would make love "true" to you? If it were some mystical, magical thing that we didn't understand, like in the movies? If it were a blessing from the gods between soul mates, like in some old fairy tales? The fact that we've come to understand love as a biochemical interaction that serves a functional purpose doesn't make it not real. In fact, understanding it assures us that it is real, at least more so than if it were some elusive magical thing. Regardless of what its process is, or why it is something of which your brain is capable - it is still there, humans can still feel it, it still serves a biological purpose, and people generally are happier and healthier when their lifestyle satiates their biological drives.

Unless, of course, you don't want to be happy and healthy, then feel free to cast aside all the biological lies you are living.