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We routinely deny, or act in spite of, inconvenient truths. We can recognize that there is no meaning to love beyond evolutionary and chemical triggers, yet we fight for it just as fervently. Nihilists write books about nihilism despite it's admitted pointlessness. We are as blind as our very genes which multiply and propagate themselves despite our executioner sun which grows daily above our heads, eventually to the point of consuming everything we know. By the very act of living and pursuing human concocted dreams and desires, we are in a constant denial of our situation.
Is there something wrong with this in your opinion? I can value a product of evolutionary and chemical triggers if I want.
Indeed! If anything, the strategic significance of those underlying causes makes love even more worth fighting for.
You're confusing "cause" with "meaning". Causality is always a part of the territory. Meaningfulness (in the sense of importance) is subjective as it's assigned by each person's mind
I wholeheartedly disagree.
But perhaps the whole comment should be taken ironically?