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2/8/2023

Do you think love requires sacrifice?

In reply to @samantha
2/8/2023

Absolutely. Not a full sacrifice as in "give up part of yourself", but small sacrifices regularly.

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craabit@craabit
2/8/2023

Hm…probably wouldn’t be love if it didn’t. 🤔

In reply to @samantha
2/8/2023

I'd say compromise and clear communication. Sacrifice is a negative connotation.

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Les Greys@les
2/8/2023

Uncompromising sacrifice. Sacrifice you would never have imagined you would have needed to take.

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Cameron Armstrong@cameron
2/8/2023

Love requires solving a new constraint optimization problem. Resources are limited, but you’ve decided to play coop so your original life function has to shift to include their life function too. The new solution likely results in less of one variable to gain more of another.

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dmath@dmath
2/8/2023

Yep, to love something you have to confine yourself to it.

In reply to @samantha
2/8/2023

I don’t think love necessarily requires sacrifice but love facilitates sacrifice. There’s a Bayes theorem ting going on where sacrifice is more frequent in loving relationships than in other kinds of relationship.

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tim 🥝@timdaub
2/8/2023

too wide of a question tbh

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danny iskandar@daniskandar
2/8/2023

everyone has ego, some big, some small. To love someone, means you are 'following' someone's ego or to die for yourself (crush your own ego). So if that's what you call what sacrifice is, then it is a 'sacrifice'. But from the ego perspective, you are actually gaining. but wat do i know?

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josh@u
2/8/2023

Yeah, sacrifice of comfort for sure

In reply to @samantha
2/8/2023

It’s neither necessary nor sufficient

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Jonny Mack@nonlinear
2/8/2023

yes but the mindfuck is that you want to

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mark mollé@marmo
2/8/2023

love hears fire and ice in sacrifice.

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July@july
2/8/2023

Love doesn’t require sacrifice But love w/o sacrifice is just theft

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Mike Casey@mc
2/8/2023

Super hard question One one hand love is free to give and can enrich your life (anti-sacrifice) On another, it’s surrender With one’s children, parenthood entails a degree of submission to the crude determinism of biology and the randomness of fate

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Rishi Thomas@rishithomas
2/9/2023

Definitely.

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Brent Fitzgerald@bf
2/9/2023

Eventually

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Liang良peace🇺🇸🇨🇳NoN@liang
2/9/2023

old couples like to say 'compromise'

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wizzard@wz
2/9/2023

i'd say it makes it easy. whether it would be required depends on a ton of other things outside of one's control

In reply to @samantha
2/11/2023

Is this a question or a poll? 😂

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Kirk Dameron@emergencekirk
2/14/2023

Yes