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In reply to the discussion: What are the main reasons men pay for sex? [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)This is how the universe is designed to work.
Energy exchange.
Do you think your pets show you that affection for free?
No. You give them food, affection, & shelter & they return the favor.
You have to give something to get something.
We like plants because they give us oxygen.
Plants like us because we give them carbon dioxide.
And about the 'People are Things' worry.
We ARE. That's why we can be described with nounsAKA naming words.
People ARE objects.
Just because something is an object doesn't mean we must mistreat it.
The Ozone Layer is a thing too, is an object too & when we mistreat it, we soon discover the negative consequences.
If people can have love, care, & concern for their car that same effect can be given to people.
Just because it's an object, it's a thing doesn't necessarily mean that it will be misused or disposable.
I'm not in line with that narrative that holds up human beings as a distinct category all special to themselves alone.
And I don't pedestal the relationships & interactions between human beings that way either.
We're special but we're not THAT special.
We're unique among ourselves but we follow the same universal rules as every other part of this universe.
Every interaction between people is an exchange of some sort. Whether formal or informal.
You're always getting something out of each other.
We ARE animals. We ARE objects. We ARE things.
And we are governed by the same exact Universal rules as every other bit of creation IN this universe.
Even when you "love people for who they are inside" there's that "for" word which details an exchange.
Those "insides" are objects & things too & you are exchanging your affection & companionship FOR those inside THINGS in yet another human TRADE.
It's not sinister, it's life.
It's the physics of existence itself.
What IS sinister is when one party won't trade BACK.
When there is no reciprocation.
When one GIVES & the other only TAKES.
John Lucas