Sunday, April 7, 2013

Is Love Subjective?

What is love?
Baby don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
No more
(Sorry, I had to do it.)

But back to the question at hand.
To ask if love is subjective, it is implied that there is a comparison to it being objective.
When something is subjective it is completely coming from the persons point of view. It can be based on a fact but it is one's interpretation for that fact.
On the other hand, when another thing is said to be Objective, it is supposed to be completely unbiased, more a fact than an opinion, while it still reviews and takes consideration different points of view.

So taking that into consideration; is love subjective? Perhaps. When you loves something else it comes from inside of you and the image and emotions that you relate with the object of your affection. Nothing can make you love something else, because it would not be from your own choosing.

Then, is love Objective? In the verse John 4:8, the Bible says "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." So according to the bible love should be objective. "God is love" is a statement.Therefore all the definitions one might carry for God hold true for love. God is constant, unchanging, everywhere, everything, infinite, and perfect. It would then be logical to induce that love cannot be fully appreciated by a rational or at least finite mind. We may only get glimpses of parts of it but we may never understand it as a whole.

But could love not be both? 
Aha! Now we get into really confusing topics. But yeah I personally believe that love CAN and IS both subjective and objective. It is objective because love is a THING. Love exists and it means something.
But what does Love mean? Exactly! I think that because everyone interprets love differently it is also subjective. No two people are ever going to feel the exact same way, so love's subjectivity comes from that every single of the billions of people on the planet are going to love at one point. They might love their parents as children then another human being as their couple later on, and people are always going to love their deity's. I, as a catholic, love God and everything He is, just as any one of my peers love Him. But I might love God in a different way than he does.

So yeah, to answer the question, I believe love is subjective, as well as objective.

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