I think that it is theoretically possible to one day synthesize a drug that could mimic/replicate, or truly create the feeling of "love" artificially and quickly towards another human being or object.
It would be normal for many people to laugh at the idea, for love is something that many would believe can only come naturally, and over a long process of time. It is something that "can't just be made" because it is "far too complicated" and a gift from the heavens. Love is sacred and many believe it is what makes the world go 'round.
However if you were to look into the science behind the scenes of what love actually is, you will come to realize that it's no way near as amazing as you would have first thought or hoped. So what is love? Well i strongly believe that love is a natural biological mechanism to spur on the survival of the human population. To create strong and powerful bonds between people and family members so that they will not only copulate, but do it in unity. To want to stay with a person and strive to work out with them, give both a couple and their potential offspring a greater chance of survival.Imagine if love didn't exist. Would ANYBODY bother "hooking up"? How would you be expected to stay with a man or woman for the rest of your life if you NEVER loved them? Now you see where i'm getting at!
Love is actually a combination of two chemicals in the brain called Oxytocin and Vasopressin, combined with memory and recognition which activates the production of these chemicals whenever you see the one you "love". Every time you think of or see the person you love, these chemicals float around your brain telling you that you love them. The key to this is that love is CHEMICALS. Natural chemicals which of course with modern technology can be manipulated or recreated.
Look at the famous "love drug" called ecstasy. More importantly, the MDMA. Ok, it doesn't stimulate actual love of course, but it still does something pretty darn amazing. It artificially causes the brain to release its stockpiles of dopamine and seratonin, which are chemicals occurring naturally in the brain. The amazing thing about these two chemicals is that they are strongly linked to feeling infatuated with a person. When you have a crush on another being, your brain releases adrenaline, dopamine and seratonin! That's why people appear to love each other on MDMA, because they are feeling emotions closely resembling the ones you feel when you are hopelessly infatuated and obsessed with another person.
So if ecstasy can manipulate the chemicals of the brain associated with lust, then we're really only 1 step away from manipulating or releasing the chemicals of love. Most chemists would know that chemicals are just different combinations of binders etc. Caffeine in coffee for example is mapped and can be artificially synthesized even though it naturally occurs in coffee beans. So all that is needed is a formula/map of the chemical to recreate it. Surely Oxytocin and Vasopressin aren't THAT complicated. I'm sure it would be a piece of cake to forge them in a lab. Convert the result into a pill, powder or liquid medicine. If i am right, what's stopping its creation?
So what are the dangers and implications of a true LOVE DRUG? Imagine this product was released. So many people unable or desperately looking for love are surely going to flock into chemists and pay thousands of dollars for love in a bottle. But can you imagine the serious social damage and manipulation of having such a powerful tool? Consider this. You love your mother right? Or at least your father, spouse, child, whoever. Now if you really love them, i can guarantee you would almost do ANYTHING to protect and help that person if they are in danger or need. You might even be willing to sacrifice your life for them. You would want to spend every moment you possibly can with them. Love is so beautiful because of that. Who DOESN'T want a person to love them like that? Ok so here we have an ethical dilemma. I can personally tell you that if i had this drug i would be quite enticed or tempted to use it to my own sickening manipulative advantage. Taking control of people i wanted in my life. Say there was a beautiful girl you had a crush on? All you have to do is slip this in her lunch and voila she loves you and wants to spend every moment of her life with you. Of course she wouldn't understand why she suddenly feel deeply in love with some creepy & ugly nerd she'd never even noticed before but why would she care, because you are her one and only, everything now. What's There would have to be rules set in place by law to regulate how this drug can be used. Perhaps people would have to sign a discourse for its usage. Who knows. How would you regulate it? The overall fact of the matter however is that there are always abusers out there. With love it seems like a dream come true.
Of course love has levels. Perhaps the love drug would help to boost love or trigger love, but love can diminish over time without effort. On top of that, love generally takes long periods of time to develop. To fall in love with somebody over night may still produce love of a "poorer" quality so to speak than if that love had been developed over a year long period. Because there would be memories and other emotions that will have been groomed over that period.
Administering the love drug is an interesting question to raise as well. Say you laced a target person's drink with the intention of them falling in love with you. Of course the drug will produce the love chemicals in their brain that were not there before, but with no real direction. This person could potentially be walking around with a love chemical overload, perhaps falling in love with everybody? Perhaps thus it would only work if you were to administer the drug, and then spend a night or whatever alone, just the two of you. So the brain focuses the image of you, with love triggering love only toward the administerer of the drug. Perhaps it would be a more complicated process of therapy whereby the person who takes the love drug is shown images, videos and is forced to communicate verbally with the administerer of the drug until the "victim" falls in love.
Something interesting to note is this quote taken from: http://www.youramazingbrain.org/lovesex/sciencelove.htm
"Diane Witt, assistant professor of psychology from New York has showed that if you block the natural release of oxytocin in sheep and rats, they reject their own young.
Conversely, injecting oxytocin into female rats who’ve never had sex, caused them to fawn over another female’s young, nuzzling the pups and protecting them as if they were their own."
Have a long hard think about this. Of the dangers in its use, of how people in power could be manipulated. how that ugly loser psychopathic maniac some how "seduces" the most beautiful princess of his state. It could quite possibly throw the world into disarray. In fact most likely.
Surely i am not the first person to think about this? It could even exist already! Perhaps as a chemical weapon of spy warfare. Perhaps governments or powerful organizations have created the drug secretly but have realized the potential of world chaos, resorting in them to destroy the drug or hide it from society, never to be released. How can something so wonderful, beautiful and amazing have so much potential to ruin the planet?
It boggles the mind.
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