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On Love vs. Morality

Love is a positive way to deal with Humanity; morality is also a positive way to deal with people. But the two approaches are opposite, love is based on emotion, while morality is based on ideals, love is immediate, given to those around you, morality is general and given to all near or far. Love perceives family and is attracted by familiarity; morality sees beyond family is attracted to the unfamiliar.

A good person works toward the goal of helping all Humanity with both love and morality. Morality is more an ideal; it is the "ideal" of love. Love is not an ideal; love is "hands on" morality, intimate, emotional, nurturing and connected.

Love and morality are two types of caring. The wise individual uses the duality of love and morality to help all people, and not let anyone fall between the cracks, intimate or stranger, near or far.

In the long run, love grows across its boundary toward morality to touch strangers, and morality grows across its boundary, and acquires the genuine feelings of love, thus, love and morality meet and embrace the world. When love grows step by step to embrace all strangers, then the cool abstract ideas of morality are warmed by care and nurture. All becomes family love, and love spreads through the new familiarity.

Morality is given to all strangers, familiarity is not an issue. Morality also can spread into family as principles, as ideals within the family and community. Thus two kinds of family become one, that of kin and that of ken.