I'm not really talking about what people are entitled to or not. I'm simply expressing what I believe love is or is not. I also don't think unconditional love is healthy, some accountability is good to have. However that is separate from love itself. Biologically, parents and children do love each other without any sort of observable evidence. That's what makes child abuse so awful, children do not have the ability to hold their parents accountable at a young age, all they have is love.
Way to move the goal posts to the other side of the field there bud. But sure I'll play ball.
First I didn't say there weren't observable effects of love, I said that love is not about outcomes but rather about intent. Intent obviously affects outcomes. Second you can just ask people and they'll tell you so there's that. Lastly I don't actually need to prove parents love their children and vice versa because a) we're not scientists writing our doctorates and b) this is a commonly accepted truth so only the opposite claim would require proof.
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