Does love = sex in your mind?
It appears that way from your posts.
Yet love and sex are two very different things in the real world.
I am genuinely surprised with your question. The answer, of course, is quite obvious. My posts appear that way simply because mare represents them that way. It is called a straw man argument. In my opinion, people susceptible to straw man arguments (whether fashioning them or accepting their truth-value) are generally at their wit's end.
What you and mare conveniently ignore is that
western thought is at an inexorable collision course with jesus' moral imperatives. Clearly, this is not merely a sexual matter.
Euthanasia for example -- where a patient wishes to die for entirely personal reasons, and his attending physician and next of kin conspire to grant the wish
AGAINST NOT ONLY THE HIPPOCRATICAL OATH THE PHYSICIAN SWORE BUT ALSO AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTAL IMPERATIVE -- THOU SHALL NOT KILL.
So it is with abortion -- where the argument is so counter-intuitive -- human fetus simply isn't a human being, hence not the subject of the commandment of love. But the thing about it is that
when human existence is the most vulnerable, the more urgent this imperative is.
The same reasoning applies with capital punishmen. That is why the divine consorted with the sinners and the dregs of society. They are the ones who required divine love the most.
In fact, even capitalism is becoming more incongruent with the commandment of love everyday. How can one purport to love his neighbor on one hand, and treat them as objects of commerce on the other? This becomes even more glaring in the business of medical science and innovation -- where the powers of human reasoning is made to account for profit before it can be made to alleviate human suffering.
This is a fundamental moral question --
what exactly does 'love others as yourself' really mean? Given mare's relative and often times vacillating sensibilities -- the question, in and of itself,
IS VAGUE.
It becomes logical
ONLY within the context of
NATURAL LAW.
In this context, the fundamental moral question is transformed --
how is the human existence residing in every person ought to be treated -- if the creator saw it fit to himself suffer for humanity?
Clearly, how any individual imagines to treat himself becomes irrelevant. What becomes relevant is the human nature that resides in everyone -- including the masochist, the necrophiliac, the homosexual and the suicidal person.
