An Open Letter on Love
I wrote 'An Open Letter on Love' during the height of rioting and violence in the United States. At the time, I didn't want to risk ire (online or from family) by writing explicitly about those events, and settled instead on exhorting people to love one another. I later posted it on LessWrong, where it got much less attention than I wanted, and I subsequently slunk away from the site. Now that I am working on returning there, I've decided to repost it here, and follow it with a look at the comment it got. It is reproduced below as it appeared on LessWrong in October. ----------- This post originated as an open letter to my own family this past June, later republished on a political community blog. It was born out of a dissatisfaction with how Love is popularly conceived of, as a vague positive force one pays lip service to, rather than a concrete and potent phenomenon. Religious texts are cited, but are not in conflict with secular wisdom on the matter. Not especially ...