According to Jean- Jacque Rousseau, love is a way to destroy independence. With love, there is a sense of competition. You are competing against others in order to be with your beloved. Not only does this prompt jealousy and rivalry, it also instigates people to change themselves in order to become their beloved’s top choice. So if Rousseau’s theory were correct, this Love Implant would aid in creating deeper competition to be what the beloved wants. By then, with this romantic love, you are losing your sense of autonomy. You willingly masking yourself for someone else. A life of independence is substituted for a life of pleasing the lover, ultimately losing your own identity. Rousseau believes in the concept that in order to be happy we need to be self-sufficient. Rousseau doesn’t disregard love’s benefits, but acknowledges the fact that it has its consequences, the biggest being the loss of self. Love Implants would only want each person to be a better version in order to continue the love they have. It would turn into a game of “One-Upping” in order to keep something that most theorists
According to Jean- Jacque Rousseau, love is a way to destroy independence. With love, there is a sense of competition. You are competing against others in order to be with your beloved. Not only does this prompt jealousy and rivalry, it also instigates people to change themselves in order to become their beloved’s top choice. So if Rousseau’s theory were correct, this Love Implant would aid in creating deeper competition to be what the beloved wants. By then, with this romantic love, you are losing your sense of autonomy. You willingly masking yourself for someone else. A life of independence is substituted for a life of pleasing the lover, ultimately losing your own identity. Rousseau believes in the concept that in order to be happy we need to be self-sufficient. Rousseau doesn’t disregard love’s benefits, but acknowledges the fact that it has its consequences, the biggest being the loss of self. Love Implants would only want each person to be a better version in order to continue the love they have. It would turn into a game of “One-Upping” in order to keep something that most theorists