Is the love between mother and child the only true unconditional love in the world?

It can be, but it isn't necessarily.

Nah. The only thing that comes close is the relationship between a man and his doge.

>Mother has twin sons
>"Oh my beautiful sons I love you both unconditionally"
>Son A loves her back and is kind and devoted
>Son B stabs her with a pencil in each eye, Mom now blind
>"Oh my sons, I still love you both unconditionally"

Treating Son A and Son B the same is evil.

Not valuing Son A more than Son B is evil.

>But what about forgiveness?

Son B didn't ask for forgiveness. And the Prodigal Son is a stupid - and evil - parable.

this user is either a true philosopher or a sociopath

I love my mom and she would do anything for me, but there have been times where Ive seen a super hot girl and would trade my mom in for her in a second

No, my mother abandoned my and my two brothers, we were raised by our father.

There's no such thing as unconditional love, it's always conditional.

There's no such thing as unconditional love. Love is the product of chemical reactions in your brain. Change the chemical reactions enough and no more love.

Not even that is real. Think about it, if you were any other kid in the world and weren't her son, your mom would probably hate you. She only """loves""" you because of hormones and biological processes out of her control and cultural expectations. She only feels this way because she has no choice, not because it's real.

>She only feels this way because she has no choice
That means it's unconditional.

No, it means it's not real or genuine. A computer will always do what it's programmed to. Doesn't make it meaningful or special. Maternal love is just NPC programming.

>A computer will always do what it's programmed to.
That doesn't make the program not real.

Who said anything about meaningful? We're just talking about unconditional here. No emotion is meaningful. Even if someone loves you for your skills and merits, they only like skills and merits because their brain is programmed to admire such things

yes

everything else is born in the filth-pit of lust and from our addiction to sensual pleasures

>women
>truly loving anything
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Any legitimate duty based love is the only kind of unconditional love. A typical mother loves her child as such because she feels it is her duty. The only other place you really find that is in religion.

But do you really want to give - or receive - unconditional love?

Well i really want to be unconditonally loved by a cute girl

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>fallacious anecdote proves unconditional love is "evil"

Every single year the freshmen who are just getting into their first philosophy course do this. Literally at the start of every God damn school year.

The English language doesnt agree with your subjective definition of evil and neither do I. Perhaps you should finish your philosophy 101 course before you start using the formulas taught? You can't just make up your own, ambiguous, definition of evil and then use that definition in logical reasoning.

>You can't just make up your own, ambiguous, definition of evil and then use that definition in logical reasoning.

If this is true, then you also can't "prove" that unconditional love is "good".

Because you'd have to make up a subjective definition of good to do so.

What part of the "English language" necessitates that unconditional love be good? Because you've heard that a lot? Because fucking Anselmian douchebags assign that concept to their utterly laughable concept of God?

You have absolutely no reason, other than your pathetic and cowardly fear of abandonment, to consider "unconditional love" a good thing. No matter what your definition of good is and your definition of evil is, "unconditional love" would have to draw no distinction between them. I supplied an example because it made my greentext FUNNY, but the principle applies to any system where some actions are good and some are not-good: if you honor the good (whatever it may be) and the evil (whatever it may be) the same, you are evil.

I tend to think that the concept itself exists because many people are uncomfortable with the concept of a love that is deserved, because in their interior lives they are conscious of the many wrongs they have done to those who love them, and are afraid that if a full accounting were ever made they wouldn't be loved any more. But while that makes the popularity of the concept *understandable*, it doesn't make the concept itself any better.

>>fallacious anecdote proves unconditional love is "evil"

And by the way, you fucking moron, thought experiments aren't anecdotes. Since you're such a smart dude who knows all about Philosophy 101 and logical reasoning, you should know that. I'm not recounting a story to you about actual people I know who just happen to be named Son A and Son B.

I am asking you: if a mother had two sons, should she equally love the dutiful son and the son who stabbed her in both eyes with a pencil until she was blind? If so, why? What is it that makes you so confident that this would be a beautiful and noble thing?

Because I think it would not be a beautiful and noble thing, and that the people who argue that it would be beautiful and noble do so as a deliberate slander against people whose love is given to those who deserve it.

yes. my mom loves me even though i've done horrible things to her and generally make her life harder.