Love

Love is a human emotion involving intense respect, admiration, liking, care, concern, attachment, desire, and so on for another person, animal, activity, or other thing. The term "love," like the term "friend," has many different meanings to different people and in different contexts, and pain can sometimes result from disappointment related to misunderstandings or misrepresentations concerning one person's expressed love for another. Love has an interesting potential to turn to hate, as one finds that the object of one's affection has become, instead of a source of pleasure and fulfilment, a source of anguish from disappointment, frustrated yearning and other unpleasant feelings.

In the Spanish language, "te quiero” has a wider meaning than “te amo”, amar typically meaning to love in a romantic way (although many people say "te amo" to their children), and querer more often being used for the love one has for one's friends or family as well as lovers. Thus, querer tends to refer to a less intense feeling. It can mean not only "love" but also "want," including a desire to possess. To imply other kinds of want, "te deseo" and the like would be used. "Gusta" implies desire, lust, and sexual or sensual appeal.

According to Lew Rockwell, all that people love, they owe to capitalism. This may very well be true; as Ludwig von Mises notes, "He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists." Many loved ones might not be alive were it not for the abundant supply of food, medical care, and so on that capitalism has made available. And to the extent that people desire their loved ones' happiness to be increased through the fulfilment of those loved ones' desires, capitalism has much to be credited with in that realm as well.