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What Is Love, Baby Don’t Hurt Me How do humans define love? Is it found in the warm feeling found in another? Is it found in the benefits that the person or object brings? More importantly, what do humans love? Do they love objects, things that bring them pleasure for a short amount of time, or do they love something that can reciprocate their love, another person? Humans tend to be selfish, therefore loving an object that brings them pleasure and loving another person that can reciprocate their love always brings them the benefit. They love in order to gain. But the questions is, who benefits more, the person loving or the person being loved? Also, is Aristotle’s view on love correct? What is love, found in the confines of a friendship? In the text it says, “Friends must, therefore, have goodwill toward/ each other and not go unnoticed in their wishing for the good things for/ the other, on account of some one of the (loveable) things mentioned.” (116. 1156a. 3-5) If you love so...