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For generations, the topic of love has been talked about. It’s become a part of what our society believes is necessary for healthy relationships to progress. Though many people agree that this is the case, there are still a few of us out here who beg to differ. Well, not actually beg, but most definitely will welcome a good debate about it.
Now, for support of my stance, I think about how past generations in the United States procreated. Most times, they were forced to breed like animals, because they were considered as property, and not people. And because they were looked at as if they were property, their identity as individuals was stripped from them and they were forced to live in inhumane conditions. Now. If I were put in a similar situation, more than likely, I would not be able to welcome thoughts of a romantic love within the conditions in which I lived. It would be very difficult for me to do so. And since the masters to which they belonged believed in marriage, the slaves were indoctrinated to believe the same, though they were as animals to them. (**I know. It doesn’t make sense, but that’s what it was.) Now, we know that animals do not have emotions. Their brains do not have the capacity of executive functioning, like people do. Therefore, people were forced to marry- for reasons of reproducing and love was nowhere in sight. It seems only logical that any time that anything outside of a platonic love was experienced, the thought of it usually didn’t last anyway. Reasons for this may have been because of the fear that lied in the thoughts of losing a partner to either death; or them being sold and separated; or the theory that they were conditioned, mentally, to carry on a certain way; as animals would. Regardless of the possibilities as to reasons how that could have happened, the main point is that it takes away an option to love, freely. These individuals were not “allowed” to love. Anything aside from that may likely feel forced.