Thoughts on Azlan's post: Is love lust?
In modern biology, every cell in our body is selfish. In the same way, every person in our society is selfish. Take altruism. It is a provable hypothesis that animals help one another because their cooperation would lead to a better outcome for the group. In the same way, any kind of human cooperation can be construed to be selfish. I say construed because this is not the way we ordinarily used the word selfish. Thus, I want to seperate the notion of biological selfishness with selfishness of the will. Even if it were true that love is a product of biological selfishness(akin to lust), it does not follow for me that it is thus a selfishness of the will. Love can be real, even if a deterministic set of processes were underlying it.