Fear is motivation by avoidance, whereas love is motivation by selfishness. (That's not quite what it sounds like; the selfishness bit is elaborated
here.)
You ask,
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Originally Posted by spiralarchitect  why is life valuable? |
My answer to this comes in a definition of life and death. Life is the ability to cause change, the ability to be changed. Death is an inability. You should never fear death; but this does not mean you shouldn't want life. To be alive means to be able to make a difference. That's valuable, and it has nothing to do with avoiding death.
Like Andy says, you must make the meaning yourself. That is the cost of freedom: the burden is placed on you.
It might be useful for you to read my definition of love in full; I define love as an amalgam of knowledge and equality (explored long-windedly
here). It's hard for me to provide any kind of summary of my philosophy or what I've written on it (the writing is all in my Livejournal somewhere, but it's not organized well), but I'd be happy to discuss it further, as long as you don't mind if I make public anything I say that's non-specific to you.
