Life In Tokyo Ichijou - Vol. 6 Ch. 43 - Youthful Debates

[MangaDex]

 

[Tertiaritus]

Awwww ahaha Kazuya would kill to be a fly on the wall there and then! Murakami and Misawa are so very precious~

 

[keatsta]

Ahh, I can remember having these sorts of endless youthful debates at this age... Nowadays I just don't think these big topics matter so much, I guess. Like they can be interesting and fun to discuss, but I don't think having some strong opinion that you need to defend on something so metaphysical is important. What matters is just what you do in your day to day life, which depends a lot more on your judgment on a long series of small decisions, instead of big foundational beliefs.

WITH ALL THAT SAID, I believe that "true love", like "free will" and "purpose", falls into the category of "it doesn't really exist, but that doesn't matter". Like I don't think there's any supernatural transcendent aspect of the brain that allows for such "special feelings", but anything you can ascribe to these idealized feelings - like selflessness, endlessness, top prioritization, whatever - can and regularly is achieved just by "plain old" feelings of affection, self-determination, interest, etc. What gives them these wonderful properties is mostly about circumstance and how important they feel to you. So I guess I'd kind of be in the middle of these categories. I think saying "oh it's all just preservation of the species" or whatever is overly reductive, because there is a feeling that happens that is very important. But "true love" is just a feeling like any other.

 

[Tertiaritus]

Ahh, I can remember having these sorts of endless youthful debates at this age... Nowadays I just don't think these big topics matter so much, I guess. Like they can be interesting and fun to discuss, but I don't think having some strong opinion that you need to defend on something so metaphysical is important. What matters is just what you do in your day to day life, which depends a lot more on your judgment on a long series of small decisions, instead of big foundational beliefs.

WITH ALL THAT SAID, I believe that "true love", like "free will" and "purpose", falls into the category of "it doesn't really exist, but that doesn't matter". Like I don't think there's any supernatural transcendent aspect of the brain that allows for such "special feelings", but anything you can ascribe to these idealized feelings - like selflessness, endlessness, top prioritization, whatever - can and regularly is achieved just by "plain old" feelings of affection, self-determination, interest, etc. What gives them these wonderful properties is mostly about circumstance and how important they feel to you. So I guess I'd kind of be in the middle of these categories. I think saying "oh it's all just preservation of the species" or whatever is overly reductive, because there is a feeling that happens that is very important. But "true love" is just a feeling like any other.

Based opinion. It's like Kaiji said - things like these are built from other little things