[SB_UK]

Originally Posted by futrethink ---SB_UK. ---Your two links lead to the main sites, but not to the specific points that you wish to bring to the table. If, you were attempting to show a specific point? ---Each of these can be brought under the generalization of a ‘want’, ‘like’ or a ‘love’ for something. ---‘Want, like and love’ all describe the same objective concept, in relation to how a ‘choice’ is made.

what is the root of all evil ?

---a---
evil is bad

---b---
there is no such thing as an objective bad - only subjective bad

---c---
evil is therefore subjective bad

---d---
we evolved -
and using the simplified scheme (which should not be taken as based in fact)

bacteria -> llama -> human being with a vivid imagination

well ... ... the very first llama born to (surprised) bacterial parentage -
almost certainly had an urge to raid University cold rooms for PSF-free DMEM
- and not to behave in a more (what we would now call) llama
-e
s
q
u
e

manner.

---e---
using the answer to the question which you supplied me in your thinly veiled solution to your own question -

in brief

love > like > want

let me transport you (for a second) back to the
llama of ---d---

modern llama
[lama glama subsp. karma (llama)]

... well ... ... the very first llama born to (surprised) bacterial parentage - have you ever looked closely at 'real' nipples?

that very first llama only knew what it 'wanted'
- it knew nor cared for 'like'.

- and not to behave in a more (what we would now call) llame manner

that very first llama only knew what it 'wanted' - it knew nor cared for 'like'.

How things
were to change for our lonely protagonist ?

... ... so (and this is a true story) a llama walks into a pub - and the camel hands him a cheese sandwich which he places in his mouth
- concurrently with the llama wondering why it was that he'd been drawn to push the thing in the camel's outstretched hand into his mouth -

- 'ka
bo{{{boom}}}om'

llama happy smiles
he'd discovered the joy of like

taste buds ignited
- the llama now in relative ecstacy
begins to comprehend 'like'

jumps onto the single humped camel with frothing chutzpah
and creates the first double humped camel in the process -
- and from his new vantage point and to his new friend
- he whispers
the language of 'like' into the ears of the other half of that newly emergent alliance.

poor sweet little llama -
though I smile for your happy discovery

'like'

how I wish I could show you

love !

my love thing

sadly though not ready
sweet llama
you're
just not ready -

... ... give it a few minutes love.

-*- -*- -*-

is that any better ?

If not we can engage the human with the vivid imagination who - it should be noticed - ends this post without having being used (not even fondled) -
- particularly much within context of this post.

is that any better ?

so - my question to you wouid be -
is that enough ?

- or is it the love of a man which you seek ?

Personally I think I've done more than enough.

So far I'm really not having much luck with people on this forum venturing out much of their server-based partition; incidentally - you're blue -
why are URLs so mysterious on this site?

I tell ya' ToE is easy
- but forum specific standards -

no!!!

I am now standing up
- in full body armour with one hand outstretched towards my monitor - as if a policeman commanding oncoming traffic to stop.

Incidentally ... ...
if you're not so great with metaphors - then please disregard this post and do the decent thing
and answer just one question for me

do American policemen dream of British truncheons ?