5 minute think

“Is love an invention created by humans?”

I think love is a concept that humans have thought up more than an invention. In the rest of the animal kingdom, only some animals have a life partner. Most species have a season when they find someone to mate with, but that is just because of instinct and they may not be together for more than one season. Some creatures even eat each other after mating. Even domestics dogs and cats will breed off a one or two-night stand. The idea of ‘love’ as we know it is just something we have created to make reproducing sound more meaningful.

4 Replies to “5 minute think”

  1. But is love a word used to describe reproduction? As humans, is love a feeling that we feel towards someone or something? And is instinctive mating a form of love, we’ve never felt what the animals have felt when, for example, a ‘two night stand.’ Do animals know that we define love as ‘love?’

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