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This thread has been inactive for nearly nine months, but I thought it might be worth reviving.
Basically, I started this to ask for discussion about this issue: while many of us have experienced unconditional love as a divine virtue or experience, or principle, unconditional love is controversial. Some people feel that, ideally, we can live on the basis of it, and some feel it leaves a person open to being a "patsy" or a "mark". Those who feel it is impractical, in certain ways, often feel that they themselves or the loved ones for whom they have some responsibility can be harmed by people who will take advantage of kind, gentle people.
The situation leads some of us to wonder if intuition about the personal character of individuals one meets is important in order to balance pure love (or compassion, kindness, etc).
Just wondering if people have more to say about this subject. (If you're new to this thread and what it's about, maybe read the OP and at least scan the first page or two of the thread.)
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