I agree.
Principle? no. phenomenon? no. power? NO! just an emotion? no.
First and foremost, here on this forum. Love is a word. And words point to many meanings… gathering them together in a complex network of human experiences linking them together.
Some people have certainly looked at love as a disease. But for most this simply cause for laughter. Let us look at these words of Paul.
1 Cor13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends;
Well first off, is all this true? Is love always patient? not hardly. Is love always never-ending? you have to be joking. So… is Paul lying? LOL No. Paul is telling how love SHOULD be. And frankly what he says rings true… at least this is what we desperately want love to be. Does this remind anyone of something… like in science? When someone does science is it always objective? Do they always accept the verdict of their tests? No and no. We are likewise speaking of the way it should be. They are ideals – things worth striving for.
Is love an ideal? no. no? This is another one to add to the list of things linked up with this word “love”. For there certainly is an emotion, and a concept, and a phenomenon, and an ideal (and maybe I am playing favorites here cause I don’t like principle or power very much LOL). But yeah there is a great deal of subjectivity involved and people likely experience love in different ways. So… subjective? definitely!