Unconditional Love

This has crossed my mind a few times recently, and has been making enough of a clamor that I've decided to write at least some of it down. So here, I present to you ( my ramblings about unconditional love and why it's a dangerous ideal )

Thoughts?

Unconditional Love, Part II

This probably should have been the first of these posts, but better late than never--the last one got a lot of interesting replies that have brought me to the realization that I'm not sure I understand how other people use the term. And that it would probably be good for me to find out some of those usages. So! What does the concept of unconditional love mean to you?

(No self-referencing definitions, please! "Unconditional love is when you love someone unconditionally" unfortunately doesn't really help my understanding ;)

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