Oh love again....again...again
"I'd argue it's without intellect that one would have problems changing their behaviors. Emotions don't learn, they just cause behavior that someone's intellect could learn from. The only real problem I'd see with lacking emotions would be having the mimicry feel unnatural."
emotions give you motivation to care. or you wont learn, because you dont give a shit, emotionless life is boring, as it lacks stimulus in general.
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"It could be one's comfort that allows a con-artist or parasite to squirrel away their good fortune, for with comfort comes duller senses. A big enough mistake would likely cripple one's personal life unless what they possess and value more than all else cannot be taken from them (such as one's faith)."
so dont be stupid, you can be happy and smart.
"So what's the scale? What is too content and not content enough? I was about to have my say until I realized that, with the range unidentified, they could be brushed aside from vague factors. "
i dont know whats the scale. i could spend a few days, research and create some fictional scale, but no. what is the scale is not relevant to the issue. regardless of what the scale is, there are stable/unstable points on it.
"This one had me laughing a bit. People as a whole must be rather stupid then, as emotions are quite commonly the source of one's fall."
people as a whole are stupid
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i dont know anything about love.
"i dont know whats the scale. i could spend a few days, research and create some fictional scale, but no. what is the scale is not relevant to the issue. regardless of what the scale is, there are stable/unstable points on it."
Or you could define a rough range based on what you believe, like what your minimum example of often content and not often content enough would be.
Without a scale, there is nowhere to make examples that can't just be hand waved as "He's often/not often content". There needs to be the ability to make comparisons or there's nothing to really analyze with any notion of clarity.
I'm a nerd about this subject and tend to go into the Greek types of love so I'll spare everyone that lecture.
Long story short is no, in the way you are implying I do not currently love anyone. At the same time I don't love myself. However, my choices are in line with the lesser of two evils. I know I have to live with myself, dealing with that other person isn't concrete.