Love is simply choosing to connect. You can connect with money. You can connect with drugs. You can be really passionate about doing something destructive. In the context of the TLP triangle, Love is using your free will to connect with whatever the heck you want to.
It seems that you're confusing Love with Oneness (Love + Truth). Love by itself is simply the decision to connect (with anything), and its aspects are connection, communication, and communion. Oneness is where Love merges with Truth, and that's where we start bringing in qualities like honesty, fairness, contribution, etc.
There are a lot of people who feel very passionately about what they do and would go so far as to say they absolutely love it, even though it may be destructive. But to live in alignment with love but not truth is to be in a constant state of denial.
Some people, for example, would say they love drinking wine, even though the alcohol is toxic to their cells. Their decision is in alignment with love because it gives them an experience they want, but it's out of alignment with truth because they have to remain in denial of the negative health effects, as few would admit to regularly taking poison intentionally (as that would mean admitting stupid behavior). So they often go into denial by pretending that wine is healthy (fueled by phony wine-industry funded studies to support their cause). However, the simple truth is that they'd get more health benefits from drinking fresh grape juice or eating grapes instead. Similarly, I could claim that a bowl of blueberries with rat poison is healthy because it's high in antioxidants, simply by denying the rat poison and playing up the blueberries. Of course, Truth is a holistic package that can't be so easily fragmented, and the same goes for Oneness.
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