Love is Evil !

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I prefer the Keatsian idea of the bittersweet, personally. As he says, love can't exist without its opposite, but I don't think I want to spend my life in neutral. I'd rather experience both the extremes than nothing at all.

Nietzsche said that love of one is barbarism.

Isn't nationalism the blind and unconditional love of country ? You love one on the expense of the rest of humanity and that is hating or at best being indiferent to all the rest. What does this love bring but chaos and destruction ? Hmmm, interesting stuff !

yes! it's precisely because Zizek's ideas challenge the very foundation of our conventionally held beliefs and practices (together with the methods by which we arrive at them) that we are made to feel uncomfortable, which then naturally leads us to disagree with him.

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People shouldn't be given the impression that Zizek is some dark person just because of this clip. This clip is the first scene from a documentary about him. In it you can see him with his son (who has many toys), and also discussing which restaurant to eat at. He seems a lot more normal than you'd think. The only thing dangerous about what he says is that people are stupid and someone may misinterpret him.

zizek would be wrong if universal love were plausible, but i don't think it is.

no but changing the definition so that you have idiots who end up having arguments going in circles

the only way to argue one's self in circles is to try to give a universal definition to the single most abstract principal known. There is no definition to be changed, nor would he change it if there were. He is commenting on the nature of this principal in juxtaposition to popular morals, and intends to draw conclusions more from the latter than the former.