TRUE LOVE: Maggie Gallagher replies to Sara Butler

Sara writes:

For an evolutionary psychologist like Buss, the answer to that question is likely something unromantic like, "love is an adaptation that evolved to maximize our reproductive possibilities."

Well, the language of evolutionary psychology may not sound very romantic, but I find the idea the purpose of true love is babies also to be rather satisfying. In my experience, babies are about the best thing there is.

The older I get, the more I sound like a country and western song: ("I don't believe virginity is as common as it used to be, that black is black or white is white, the rising cost of getting by, but I believe in love. I believe in babies. I believe in mom and dad, and I believe in you...") The problem with scientists is they tend to think the discovery that human beings are bodies (not just "have bodies") and that therefore human emotions and aspirations have biological bases, invalidates them.
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