[Jean Chauvin]

"Let us consider the nature of love and its consequences. I cannot experience love from you unless you have the capacity to do otherwise. If you have the capacity to not love me, and you choose instead to love me, then that choice has validity. It has meaning. You cannot have a love relationship with a computer. It is pre-programmed to serve you. Love requires choice: unencumbered choice. And that's where the problem lies."

I do not love my children because I "choose" to do so.

I love my children because they are my children. In reality, I don't have a "choice" but to do so.

I guess, according to your author, I don't ~really~ love them.

Jean

[SoothingDave]

I love my children because they are my children. In reality, I don't have a "choice" but to do so.

If a parent's love for their children was as inescapable and automatic as you posit, there would not be the neglected and abused children we hear tales of every day.

If you love your children, it is because you chose to. Many men and women sire and dam children with nary a second thought to giving of themselves for the betterment of their offspring.

SD