If you had access to a magical love potion that could make a person fall in love with you, would you use it? Explain your reasons.
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Absolutely not. Regardless how hopelessly in love I am or how I desperately yearn for it to be a mutual feeling, I dare not use a love potion for the simple reason that the concept of using a love potion is vaguely similar to the use of voodoo dolls. It's unethical and wicked.
Besides, the fact that the opposite gender loves you due to unnatural force (therefore making it an artificial love) should be enough for anyone to stay away from love potions.
It actually depends on the person you're using it on , let's say if the person is Darren Criss or Ryan Reynolds , i would DEFINITELY use the potion.
When it comes to people surrounding you , after using the potion you might not feel regret or guilt at first but after a while you start questioning yourself if this was meant to be!!!!!
I believe there's someone out there for every living person and if we give love a chance , we'll be able to find the ONE , it would be amazing if you're able to make someone fall in love with you but at the end of the day the spell wears off and you're left alone , once again :(
Personally every ounce of my body would want to use it but I would stop myself every time because it would just be the easy way out, you would get the person's love but without earning it, it's like a cheat code in a video game but except it's in real life.
I guess what I am trying to say is I wouldn't want to use it because if you do everything would be to easy... like using a cheat in a video game.
I pictuire it this way, many a times in life we must have fallen head over heals for someone and later on in life we realize how wrong that would have been. Yet, in those moments of captivity, someone would have died to be with that other being.
Imagine if you had used the love potion then? You would have bound yourself to someone who wasn't meant for you.
Plus you would have hindered that person from someone more befitting and the person for that person... You basically could have messed up an entire cycle.
That is where destiny comes into the picture, you can't be hast and rush things like that. If it was meant to be it will. You shouldn't force it as Aqilah mentioned.
In addition to that wouldn't you feel much more valuable if that person were to love you for YOU rather than because of a brainwashing potion you've injected into their system clearing them of all preferences and rational thinking all natural human urges and characteristics forcing them to became your love robot, because that's basically all it is.
Well I guess if you truly love the person and you use the potion, he or she will genuinely fall in love with you and a relationship could work out.
However I believe in true love, and making someone fall in love with you by using a magical love potion implies that the person never loved you in the first place, thus meaning it was never MEANT TO BE.
Couldn't of said any simpler than that.
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Would I be highly tempted to use it? Yes. Would I actually fight my will power and Use it? No.
The thing is, even if it did supposedly make the man I fonder upon fall in love with me, I’d still have that gut feeling or guilt that it isn’t real, that the soul purpose he loves me is wholly due to the fact that he’s under some spell, that it’s not ‘True love’. Additionally it would be morally wrong to force/influence or in this case enchant someone to fall in love with you against their own will. Plus, like Charlie said, if it was meant to be, it would have happened without their being the need to use the potion
Relating it to a fictitious story I've read, a girl used a love potion on someone she loved greatly, and he seemed to love her back. After a few months, she believed that he would truly fall in love with her, so she stopped giving him the love potion. It ended disastrously, and he was repulsed by her, and didn't have an ounce of 'love' of her.
All this aside, using a love potion may be extremely tempting, but ultimately the guilt of forcing someone into a make-believe, fake relationship will claw at you forever.
Unless you're a socio-path, I'd say let the person fall in love with you for who you are, or move on.[easier said than done, but there is no other alternative.]
This potion could be a bit diabolical as it would really make everything for its user an illusion. The world has a balance of love and hate and so does life-this would actually end up fiddling with that fact. To end on a lighter note-if such a potion is used on a stone hearted criminal, dictator or a terrorist...the world would be a much better place-isn't it?
...........Oh God. This is a moral dilemma I've struggled with a lot. Honestly, I would give anything for reciprocated feelings of that sort if I loved the person enough to even CONSIDER using a love potion but echoing everyone else, it's unethical and besides, why fabricate a love that wasn't meant to be?
It's a really painful topic. Infatuation and love are two different things but what does that matter to someone who's so desperately smitten? ...I have a lot to say on the matter that really isn't appropriate for a school blog so I'll just shut up now.
If it wasn't meant to be, don't do it, ethical issues, cruel magic, etc etc etc.
I personally cannot imagine anyone who wouldnt feel some sort of temptation of using the love potion on someone thy admired,i know i would have a battle of an angel and a demon on each side of my shoulder on whether to use it or not.
But then as Charlie said,if it was never meant to be then why try to alter love? Like charlie,i also believe in true love.There is someone out there for everyone.
No i would not use the Love Potion......Unless she wanted me to :).
I wouldn't use it because what is the point of a love based on lies or in this instance one huge lie.
It could be used in schemes or desperation but I would never use it. It wouldn't be real or honest. It would be fake and unfaithful.
Besides, I don't believe in forcing people into things.
No way! Though it does sound like a good idea. If you have used this potion on your 'lover', no matter how in love you are, you will never deny the fact that this is an artificial love. It would definitely be a gruesome feeling knowing that the person you are truely passionate about does not love you and you are that desperate to actually use it.
This represents your personality. Honestly, in my point of view people who would use love potions to force people to love them is not appealing at all. They loose the whole concept of true love, it is not special any more. Would you actually like that? Just because you are head over heals over some one and that same person doesn't feel the same way does not mean that you have to MAKE them fictitiously fall in love you,infact it shows you that it is not meant to be. There are millions of other people in this world and one of them is your true love. Don't rush; every person has their own time. Let the being fall in love with you for who you are naturally.
True love awaits...
I am certain that I shan't use a love potion on the person I fancy or wish for to adore me as much as I adore him for the simple reason that love is natural and cannot be created by something so hilarious as a mixture of various substances. People must admire you for what you are, and consequently like or dislike you for it, not because they are affected by a potion.
If I was given a choice to use a love potion on someone, I would absolutely refuse to do so for the fact that I am MAKING a person love me. I guess that would lower my self-esteem since I couldn't receive a mutual feeling from that individual himself and instead I'm using a potion to create unnatural feelings.
No, I wouldn't use it. Not only because it's morally wrong and extremely unjust to the person who's given this potion, but just because there's so much more to love than just having someone 'love you back'. It's about loving your imperfections and flaws, each and every one of them making you that much more perfect. It's about that first look you share across a room full of people, meant only for each other. It's about the gentle resting of ones palm against the others, how they always find each other even if they weren't looking. And it's about so much more: things you share, you build, you learn, you discover all TOGETHER. Not by tossing down a 'potion' that would just magically teach it all.
I can not define falling in love, I cannot explain it, I can not break its meaning down in neat looking paragraphs to begin to possibly make it clear and I sure as heavens can not claim that I may be right. But it's something that definitely needs to be experienced, and not concocted!
I believe that any normal human being would be tempted to use the potion due to selfish reasons of course, yet sensible reasoning would convince someone otherwise.
I personally would NOT use the potion, simply because i would want someone to love me genuinely, from the bottom of their heart and free-willingly, not because of a love potion. It would be difficult to ignore the fact that there is a potion that could assist one in loving another, yet love that comes from within is always better.
Some would act out of desperation, yet i believe that if it was meant to be, it'll work out, no need to force matters and creating a false relationship out of desperation and selfishness.
If the world depended on it, then absolutely, but otherwise I would rather choose not to use such potions. The conception of having such a powerful mixture is out of nature's control, and it might somehow intervene with the balance of life. I for one can wait for true love, no matter how many years go by (as long as I know that I am not forcing their love on me by manipulation).
Honestly speaking, when someone claims that they would 'absolutely, most definitely, by all odds, unquestionably' NEVER use a love potion, what they don't realize is that it's much easier said than done.
This I say, not in relation to an adult (who might have experienced the nature of love as they see it), but instead, in relation to all of us easily infatuated teens sitting here, blogging our thoughts down left, right and center. Imagine being a "love-struck" young adult, and yearning for the attention of someone special, yearning to feel loved by someone you've had eyes for since forever, and to experience passion or so on with them. If there were a solution to these innumerous curious longings, I can say, with quite a bit of confidence, that nearly everyone would be tempted to make use of it.
Of course, taking into consideration everyone's responses I agree that love is definitely NOT about forcefully luring someone into your arms but instead it has a much deeper, recondite meaning to it. "True" love is about SO much more - the likes of which( even if I believe at this point I am so confidently right about) I am not rightly aware about.
If I were to answer the question now: then no, I would choose against using a love potion 'cause that's just, in my opinion, pathetic and would have misleading consequences. However, being only human with a little bit of selfish greed, at that particular point in time, I'd probably think much, much differently.
^ Well said, Tannya.
The answer definitely varies from person to person.
Personally, despite knowing that using anything such as a "magical love potion", or of the sort, would inevitably be morally wrong, because forcing anyone to do something that is not of their will is never a good thing. It’s just not fair and there’s no justice to it.
A cliché statement: "I'd rather be loved or hated for who I truly am, than for something I know that I'm not."
I guarantee you that I know many people out there who would actually use a love potion or whatever else than can get their hands on, in order to gain the advantage of anyone, but that doesn't make them any less human, because after-all, it is in our nature to carry out such sinful flaws.
However, I know that as tempting as it might sound, I'd rather steer in the other direction once I hear some catch phrase like, "magical love potion for sale! Make people fall in love with you."
Hahaha. It’s just something I honestly wouldn’t buy or be drawn to.
In a case like this, I wouldn't mind just blending in the background or being disliked/hated by others because I'd rather associate myself with genuine people who are up front and honest about their opinions, beliefs, values and perspectives.
It’s better to continue to day dream or fantasize about being adored by someone or getting along with them someday, than to instantly force them to fall for you.
Besides, who's to say that this so called "magical love potion" is 100% guaranteed to work?
Of course not!
The potion will not make the individual fall in love with me at any rate. The irksome brew is merely going to put the poor dude under the ILLUSION that he is in love with me. And i couldn't live with that.
Love is something that comes naturally from the heart. Making a person fall in love with me for the moment in an artificial way is completely pointless. And plus, what if the spell runs out. Not only would you be lonely but others too would have no respect for me. I'd lead a shameful life forever just for today's happiness.
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