From: DRAGONFLY           
To: THE SPECIALIST      
Subject: Relationships  
Date & Time: 05/06/91 01:40:48
Message Number 16579

>What, so no two loves are the same?  Then you must love one more,
>therefore, you love one less.
     
Logically the equivalent of:
   No two different words are the same.  Therefore, given any two words,
one must be better than the other, and one must be worse than the other.
     
   Manifest Bullshit (tm).  Love might be quantifiable -- I might love
one person more than another -- but it ain't necessarily so.  Love is
a poset (as Turtle might put it.)  
     
   Given two different people that I love, I MAY love one person more
than another, but I always love one DIFFERENTLY than I love the other.
To phrase it bluntly and selfishly, each of my close friends serves some
emotional need I have... no one person I've found has shared all of my
interests in the same amount as my own interests.  No one person I've
found has exactly fit my emotional needs perfectly, so I search out a
balance among my friends.  And I do the same for my friends...
   (Ghods! What a computerized way of sounding!  But it's how I think.)
                        //Dragonfly//