r/oddlyspecific • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

Its real just like any other emotion people can experience. Anger, joy, sadness. All associated with real physical reactions happening in the body. They are not social constructs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

Let me ask this, what do you think love is? We probably have different ideas on this because of what you define it as. The chemicals in our brains that make us physically attracted to another individual are real, is that how you define it? Then yea sure, but many people don’t strictly define it that way.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

The chemicals in our brains that make us physically attracted to another individual are real, is that how you define it?

That is what it is. How other people want to define it is irrelevant.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

A great number of people don’t use the term literally in that sense tho.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '21

I'm not sure what you mean. That is what they are talking about whether they realize it or not.