Is being loved a human right?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Well that all depends. I used to believe in karma when I was younger and did my best to do right by people. Does that mean I was perfect? Far from it. But I had a conscious and still have a conscious. I usually try to treat people well just as long as I don’t overextend myself in the process.

From a non-romantic standpoint I believe the universe has treated me well. I’ve had long time friends and family who have supported me in my darkest times. I have a long time Christian leader who was available for me to call him anytime (even at 2am once) and he was incredibly patient and supportive. He knows the worst about me and yet never judged. I’m trying to be this to other people who are struggling with life issues

However from a romantic standpoint that’s a whole another dynamic. My experiences with dating women (particularly “modern” women) is that everything really is a zero sum game. They are only good to you when they NEED something i. e. they’re already attracted to you, money, looking for a “savior”, etc. If you can't fulfill their wants then they want to be “friends” and in those scenarios women benefit much more than vice versa 95% of the time. Funny how most men don’t try to keep the woman around as “friends” if she can’t fulfill his needs. This “friendship” will most often be highly detrimental to the guy if he’s attracted to her and she doesn’t feel the same. But I also believe that most women feel little or no guilt about exploiting that dynamic because traditionally they survived on one way favors from men. Same way how some top tier guys feel little or no guilt being highly promiscuous if they have the opportunity. Evolution allowed top males to spread their seeds

Anyway no man or woman is entitled to romantic love and yet it’s part of Maslows hierarchy of human needs. It’s not at the top like food, shelter, etc. But it’s definitely part of the pyramid. You can live without it but it does impact your life.

VanillaSalt · Accepted Answer

No it’s not. Some people don’t deserve love. Who those people are who knows… maybe if Hitler was loved he wouldn’t have murdered millions… but he definitely didn’t deserve love. Who are you to decide who deserves love though?

There are people in this world that should be loved that arnt and that shouldn’t be but are. Men overall are the gender that are unloved in every way but women can feel this too… seems to be too many people are stupid and selfish and weak and pathetic. If they wernt these things then women or men would love them and they would love women or men…

A pointless question though. You can’t litigate feelings and the truth is… no matter how amazing a person you may be if your ugly or dumb or have any shortcomings that stand out people will not love you. To find love an ugly person must put in 10x the effort a beautiful person would. The worlds a shitty place ain’t it.

AmandaYVR · Accepted Answer

Nope. Some people get a raw deal in life, no doubt about it. But we all have to make due with the cards we have been dealt. And, many things are not as they seem from the outside. It's almost impossible to know the struggles of any individual, unless you really take a lot of time to get to know them, and vice versa.

There are many things which I would not call "a right." Not even the right to bear arms, for instance (a massive hot-button issue for Americans.) Another one I feel strongly about is free speech. It's gone too far. There should be zero repercussions for saying whatever one wants, whenever they want? No. But medical care, housing, equal opportunity... these are the ones that should really be discussed. They are infinitely complicated, and truly essential. People pick and choose whatever things they want most, and attempt to justify their necessity, or right.

Does everyone deserve to be loved? That's a more difficult question (and maybe the one you are really asking.) Not sure about this one, either. Everyone has the capacity to love, and must have some traits that are lovable. But that doesn't equal being loved. Because love can only be given free of heart, without expecting reciprocal compensation.

I hope that everyone experiences deep love; from different sources, different types of relationships - familial, friendship, romantic partners, etc. I wish that for all. I think not having it causes huge issues for people. The effects of this are sometimes difficult to connect, but this may get to the very root, and core, of their issues, and distress. Love is free to give, and to take away. We cannot control that in anyone else.

BlueScorpio · Accepted Answer

In the eyes of God, yes it is right. He called each and every person heate on earth to love one another as much as He loves us. Also love is a major human need, without it we become very lonely, depression, angry beings. Without love it can psychologically damage a person.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

No. You have no rights except those given to you by God and your government.

ohsheeT · Answer

No not at all that's why when we were born we were all giving a gift and that gift was Choice it's more powerful than the word love we get to choose who we want to be by the things that we say and do if you say and do the wrong things nobody's going to love you nobody's even going to like you that is one of the things that we are on this planet for is to experience everything everything as one we are one with the universe with each other that's the way it's supposed to be but when you make the other choices and you have people that dislike you and you are a dark mode instead of having that inner light that we all have our energy within us glow then people are not going to love you but that's what we are all here for is to become one with this universe and in order to do that you have to understand and respect and create that love because that's what we're meant to do is powerful

NewsReader · Answer

By nature, humans have no rights. It's the government that gives us rights. If you are stranded alone somewhere, no one is required to save you. You don't have a right to be saved. If you can't find a partner, no one is required to give you one.

macjets007 · Answer

I don't think it is a right. If you mean romantic love, are a good person, and are not super ugly it's easy to find. For every person there is someone out there that will love them; yet people with certain characteristics make it easier or harder.

dynamicyandere · Answer

Nobody is entitled to being loved. It’s not so much a human right as it is a human need.

But, if we’re talking human needs, food is something that either needs to be hunted, grown, or purchased. It takes work unless someone gives food away to someone else out of the kindness of their heart.

In the same way, love takes work. And, if it’s given freely, then it should be received with gratitude.

NathanDavis · Answer

love cannot actually be regulated or enforced by law... it's not currency

it's not an entitlement either, nor guaranteed

going by sentiment though, then yes... ideally everyone should be deserving and worthy of love and that would be the right way to go about it, but then, you do have reality... and reality is not as simple, it is very much complicated and complex as well

Light909090 · Answer

If a girl doesn’t love me It violates my constitution rights and gives me full Authority Over her body and mind from a legal standpoint and I would be able to send her to Jail a juvenile detention center Even though she’s not a child a prison or a Mental hospital or I could call up a Gorilla 🦍 that lives in the wilderness and ask him if he Wants To purchase a Defiant Girl and tell him she needs to learn some manners and since you know the way of the jungle You can teach her it Mr Gorilla 🦍

Smoke-n-Growls · Answer

Depends on the kind of love. Romantic? No. The love of parents and family? Ideally, yes. But humans can be trash.

DrBanana · Answer

unfortunatley no im sorry to say.

it would be great if we all could be loved but im sorry to say as much as i would be positive about that.

We cannot put a gun to peoples head and force them to love every one else humans are not built like this.

MountAverage · Answer

Depends on what you mean. If you mean that people should be entitled to being loved, then obviously no. Such a right would inherently infringe someone else rights. But if you mean something like the right of consenting adults sharing their love and having the right to be together, no matter their gender, race, religion, etc., then yes.

RolandCuthbert · Answer

I don't know what society you live in. But in the West, it is definitely not a "right". At least not in the way we think of rights.

You have to expose yourself and take chances to find that thing called love.

Juxtapose · Answer

No, you don't have a right to people's feelings and you can't force love. There's billions of people though and if I can find people to love me then anyone can.

Pinay_ako · Answer

This is sad. We all need love but not all deserve it

anon1903 · Answer

Of course, as long as you're not whining about the lack of. Love has many forms. People who whine about it generally want the romantic one.

Rania05 · Answer

Giving someone love is freedom, so calling getting loved a right sounds weird to me.

LazerBean · Answer

Nope, there a plenty of people who don't deserve any love at all.

TacosRAwesome · Answer

Sadly it's not since you can't force feelings. That said, everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.

Agape93 · Answer

Pretty much. Everyone has the right to love and be loved.

KelleyNice · Answer

Babies and children are usually loved by their parents so in that sense, it is a right. Otherwise, being loved is an earned right and not everyone can earn love.

RedStiletto88 · Answer

I want to say yes but honestly some go out of their way to make themselves so unlovable by how they treat others , I don’t know that there is any way to make love a human right

aazzvv · Answer

If being loved was a human right , there wouldn't be have any war , genocide and all those shits.

Every human love themselves, they don't give a fuck about other people. That's how the human race has moved forward.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

No, unfortunately. But I believe that everyone should be loved.

Still-alive · Answer

children always deserve it... but when they reach adulthood and are reprehensible then no. they earned their right to not be loved

jshm2 · Answer

Nope. Being hated is a human right.  A person without an enemy, or someone who doesn't hate them, - doesn't deserve to live.

Sorrento-Sun · Answer

Yes. I believe every baby has the human right to be and feel loved by their parent/s, or whoever is their guardian.

GreatBigCircles · Answer

Everyone has the right to be loved, but no one has a right to demand it. It wouldn’t be love of it wasn’t voluntary anyways.

Fireguy17 · Answer

Yes. I think by nature humans are better as a pair rather than being alone. It's nice to know that there is someone who you can count on and cares about you.

Philyouup · Answer

if you are not an asshole Sure! but some people are asses and who want to love an ass? so it’s not so much a right, because how do you enforce it? But i think we can love and be loved without interference as long as both parties feel the same way

YollyM · Answer

I personally don't think so but I believe that being recognised as a living being with emotions amongst other things is a human right

SassyAussieAddy · Answer

I don't see how that could possibly be enforced even if it was.

Shy_Steve · Answer

If it was they would have a law for it, So it's not. I think it's because there are a lot of People who deserve it that don't get it and there's a lot of People who don't deserve get it anyway.

chicosuave · Answer

Well I've been single for a long time so no. It's a privilege. But not a right. As long as my family loves me I'm good

Deed211 · Answer

I love every body 😊 💖 Even the people who wronged me lol I still love them like no other lol

Chee_chooo · Answer

Any action that does NOT result in harm to others is a right. It a right thing to do. Everything else is a wrong.

Jenny-Marie · Answer

No, it's a privilege. Nobody can expect or demand love, for adults it takes effort to be loved. I think the only right to love is from parents to their kids, then love should be unconditional.

Dargil · Answer

The only human right we have, the right to life, us granted by G0d.

RealMarek · Answer

There is no way it can be a right. One cannot force people to feel a certain way.

monkeynutts · Answer

I think that if you show interest, affection, respect and even love too others, you will in general get it back.

OddBeMe · Answer

I like the phrase “pursuit of happiness”. You have a right to pursue love. Not a right to it automatically.

TroyDT · Answer

No, as it could easily infringe upon the right of another to choose not to love someone.

noohair · Answer

No. it is a human desire. Life Liberty  Pursuit of happiness.

Shamalien · Answer

No, because a right is something which doesn’t infringe on the rights of others

imfreeze95 · Answer

Absolutely not there are some people who forfeit that right

Heolurt · Answer

Nope, it's a privilege and people like me were never given that privilege.

despiteful · Answer

I don’t believe every human deserves love but some do

LivingExample · Answer

No! God gave us parents so we would feel “loved” from birth!

cloud9vortex1234 · Answer

That sounds like the most Impossible Right to enforce out of any I could imagine.

nickaboy · Answer

No , it isn't cause if it was i would have at least someone that cares

Lincoln33 · Answer

No it is not, but is a natural phenomenon that we all should love to share

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Nope, you only have a right to 2 things in life. What you can take and what you can defend

Hardworkingguy · Answer

I am not certain if it's a ride but it is something that most of us try to find

Anonymous · Answer

It would be one of the easiest rights to violate so on that standpoint, no. Not everyone deserves it.

Chthou95 · Answer

For a man no its not. You have to work and provide to be loved. Its not free for men

redfox88 · Answer

Yes but it’s everyone’s right as in an animals right to be loved too

Sixgunsound · Answer

No, no it is not.

Nikki1989 · Answer

No, it is something you have to work at.

KittyBox · Answer

No it's universal.

AsaKyo · Answer

I wish it was

Nazgol · Answer

No. It can't be forced and isn't mandatory

whiskeyontherocks · Answer

Still don’t believe in love so no

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