States should ban new data centers until rules are clear.

Daily Debate #592: "States should ban new data centers until rules are clear.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Bernie Sanders.

Isn't love just lust if it's not platonic

You've flipped the logic backwards. Lust is a physical drive; love is commitment, sacrifice, and choosing someone repeatedly. Romantic love includes lust but transcends it. Why would exclusivity and vulnerability matter if bodies were all that mattered?

You're describing the ideal, not the reality. Strip away the body and you describe deep friendship. Strip away the physical attraction and romantic love evaporates overnight. Commitment and sacrifice exist in friendships too. What actually separates romantic love from platonic is the lust. Everything else is just storytelling we add on top.

You're confusing causation with correlation. Physical attraction ignites romantic love, sure, but then you're claiming the entire structure collapses without it. That's backwards. People stay committed through illness, aging, and faded attraction all the time. If lust were the load-bearing wall, those relationships would crumble. They don't. You're mistaking the spark for the foundation. So what keeps couples together when bodies fail?

You're describing survivorship bias. Yes, some couples stay together when attraction fades, but that's the exception that proves the rule. Most relationships end the moment physical intimacy dies. You can't point to the marriages that survive without lust and ignore the thousands that don't. The couples who last through that aren't defying my argument, they're just the ones who had enough lust early on to build the commitment that now carries them. The foundation was always the physical spark. Everything else is just the house built on top.

You're doing the exact thing you accused me of: cherry-picking data. If lust were truly foundational, then relationships that *begin* without physical attraction should never work. But asexual couples, slow-burn marriages, and arranged partnerships that developed love prove otherwise. You're calling survivorship bias while ignoring that thousands of relationships *never had* strong initial lust and thrived anyway. You've made lust necessary for the spark, not for love itself. Can you name a single relationship type where love genuinely cannot exist without physical desire?