Why Is Love a Fallacy?
Essay by people • July 14, 2011 • Essay • 440 Words (2 Pages) • 3,990 Views
A fallacy is a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning. Love is a fallacy because it is an activity when you just love because you want to and not fulfill any obligation to love, because it promotes Contradictory Premises by confusing premises and contradicting them all in itself, and because it poisons the well.
I say that love is a fallacy because it is an activity where you do something you want to do without feeling obligated to do it. Humans are not on the earth to love. We are here to accomplish certain goals to make us prosper and do better to improve the earth in my opinion. Love is a choice that we choose to make because in most cases we feel lonely and have nothing else better to do. People usually find comfort in someone whom they believe can provide them with comfort to get by or to do better. This leads me into my second point on my love is a fallacy.
Love is also a fallacy because it promotes contradictory premises. Contradictory premises are how premises (situations) contradict one another, in which there can be no argument. If there is no irresistible force, there can be no immovable object and vice versa. For example if love is meant to heal and comfort people then why in most cases do people get hurt from it? Love is also unreal. I say this because it can be erased or reversed by changing your point of view. In addition, it is a contradictory premise because it creates motives. Love creates motives because it drives people in good and bad directions. However, I also have to take in mind that love is within an individual. It is not forced upon someone.
Lastly, love is a fallacy because it poisons the well. Poisoning the well means that it involves trying to discredit what a person might later claim by presenting unfavorable information (be it true or false) about the person. Love poisons the well because it comes from desire. I say this because desire comes from within. It comes from deciding not to be content with the present. It is moved from dissatisfaction. Also for example, it is like a balloon. I say this because eventually it expands and when reached capacity it pops leaving nothing there. It grows rapidly but slowly disintegrates. It leaves nothing left for someone else to rely on.
So I conclude by saying that there are many ways that love can be a fallacy. It is something people choose to do but it is also contradictory and poisons the chances for someone else to rely or nourish on.
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