CaptainCourtesy

Good post...which is why, for this question to be answered, love, in this context, must be defined.

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Infinite Chaos

You're sort of repeating what I said except that you have excluded erotic love (which you should never have for blood family).

I would still argue it is highly unlikely to find 100 people of any religion (and non religion) who genuinely love others of their kind or even the polar opposites. It is fine to say you love your country and countrymen but I doubt many here or elsewhere would genuinely say they love military deserters / conscientious deserters or proponents of beliefs at polar opposites to themself.

For example - it would be interesting to see how many of the large body of pro-Israel posters here could say they "love" muslims...............

Lachean

Of course not, to love a thing is to know and value its nature. Everything I know about you reminds me of human civilization at its infancy (the bronze ages.)

But I do love many outside of my own family.

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