Marion Paige (Admin)
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Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:22 am: | |
Washington University For Love or Money Roundtable Conference
Date: March 25, 2010
Location: Welcome Dinner for Participants
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Yet once the “love” or “money” labels have attached to a relationship or interaction, a variety of personal, social, and legal consequences flow from that label. Cognitive dissonance may result for an individual forced to consider in “money” terms a relationship once considered in the loving category. Social stigma may attach to those who transgress societal conventions regarding which interactions should be motivated by love and which by money. Legal disadvantage may attach to those disempowered by the law’s efforts to maintain the divide between love and money. In some circumstances the law encumbers or bans outright incursions by money into the realm of love.
Why has the “love or money” distinction been such an important and enduring one? To what extent does this distinction reflect reality? To the extent that it does not, why do we maintain the dichotomy? To further some state interest? The goals of some societal subgroup? Are these interests and goals valid ones? Or do they have negative consequences? |
