You take a pill, does science know that it will make you well? No, science only can give the perceived reaction to the pill. Science can not establish well or good, benefit, benefit to society, etc.
Science can not give absolutes. Will the pill fix the problem? Science can only give the chemical change.
So in your opinion the small pox vaccine does not benefit the health of people?
Is compassionate Love a trade??
Sure. For one example, you feel less compassion for those who show little or no compassion to you. If someone is more compassionate to you, you tend to be more likely to be compassionate to them. This is why saving strangers is less common than saving family members.
I read it!
You're not giving anything. Reciprocity altruism IS NOT LOVE!!!
R
No one said reciprocity is love. Ever. Love is a way of engendering altruism. It rewards altruism and makes it more desirable through releasing endorphins. More altruism, means more chances for a group to survive. Get it yet?*
*Of course not.
"So in your opinion the small pox vaccine does not benefit the health of people?"
It may very well but science can only give us the material change. I cant establish if it's good for you.
"Sure. For one example, you feel less compassion for those who show little or no compassion to you. If someone is more compassionate to you, you tend to be more likely to be compassionate to them. This is why saving strangers is less common than saving family members."
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/154936-freedom-and-love-go-together-love-is-not-a-reactionHere's a quote from the well know philospher Jiddu Krishnmurti:
“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
To love is not asking anything in return. What have I been saying all along!
You keep trying to shoehorn reciprocal altruism in, give up the ghost! It's not love!
R