User blog comment:DYBAD/Love Without Selfishness/@comment-3075077-20130705143014/@comment-4867780-20130706022111

Love's purpose is to ensure that our genes are safely passed down. Nothing else. To this natural mechanism, our well-being as sentient individuals is simply irrelevant. We are tools to be used and cast away once our mission accomplished. So yes, from the perspective of personnal happiness, it has much more cons than pros.