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Originally Posted by JasonTakeshi
Everything we do is for ourselves. Just ourselves.
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The example was close to the way I was thinking. But I disagree that everything we do is just for ourselves. In the case of love there is more involved.
Depending on the viewpoint love is both selfish and selfless. When it becomes obsessive, or oppressive to another person, it is clearly selfish - and in those extremes I would not call it love, though some do.
Love is selfless when the person truly puts the interests of the person they love before their own, and many of us have done that. But even then there is an element of selfishness, because you cannot defer to another without some regret.