Love is the most selfish emotion to feel

.. You understood not one bit if my original debate. I would like to reiterate my points as opposed to rebutting your rebuttals as such since I fel as if I failed to convey them effectively. The key to key analogy was to explain that love is the key to happiness and excitement. Now, to be happy or excited leads you to feel disappointed when less happy or excited but love itself is not leading to this disappointment but rather to the positive emotions that lead to it. So happiness and excitement are disadvantageous as they only offer very temporary satisfaction whereas love is a long term KEY that will lead to many short term satisfactions while feeling it but does not lead to the disappointment itself. Love is a coping mechanism because, simply, if one feel affection for another they will much mroe willingly serve its needs. It's cause and effect, examples are int he sacrifices anyone in a relationship must undergo to get along with the partner. It is seen in everyday life. Women in abusive relationships whom still love their partner after all the pain and children who love parents despite having cigarette buds put out on their arms leaving burning red marks both are brutally honest examples of this being true. A coping mechanism is selfish as it profits the person much more than a mechanism which does not assist coping. Greed is another word for the emotion of lust. The difference lust is specific to sexual greed mostly, greed is all other types of greed than for the body. The reason they are emotions is because they are instinctive when one realises there is more out there for themselves to receive, or to claim as their own and the human nature to seek pride in all shapes and forms (this is in fact present in all primates) causes us to at times feel this craving, much more mental than physical since we THINK about what we feel greed or lust for a lot more than we act on it. Envy is not selfish and I shall elaborate further on why below. If you took a person who was born with no emotion. Who lived in tough circumstances with other people and all their life had felt separated from the norm of society since they could feel no emotion. Which single emotion, if only one could be chosen, would they pick? Well, let's look objectively at what each emotion has to offer. Anger raises blood pressure as well as causing people to lose all sense of reality and have inaccurate decisions made. Envy makes one feel extremely bad about not having what another has, eating away at them like an irritating parasite. Greed makes one feel unsatisfied what they currently have, at all times. Happiness makes one feel in what can only be described as a pleasurable state. .. BUT while happy one starts to ignore important things and to act a bit more boldly than would be sensible (this is why when in an ecstatic mood, people say and do stupid things, almost as it they were drunk, such as betting far more than usual in a casino, or saying things to people that one is usually too worried to tell). Love makes one very content with tough situations and very amiable to get along with. One who is loving will, undoubtedly be easier to get on with than any other in a group of people. Thus, I would assume that love would be the emotion they would pick. To be content with people and situations because of undying love would be a huge advantage. I would like to remind my opponent that we agreed to define selfish as "Concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure. " and that love undoubtedly is the emotion that reaps most profit for feeling it.