Can you buy love?
Not really, no.
Money can be used as ... a pathway for love, i cant really think of an approproate phrase to describe it.
Let me give an example - you could spend alot of money on, say, something beautiful for someone you loved, something you knew they would like and would make them smile. Love may be felt by that person, for you, on recieving this gift.
You could spend a small amount of money, or no money at all, on something beautiful for someone you loved, which you knew they would like and would make them smile. And again, love may be felt by that person, for you, on receiving this.
As demonstrated, it is the emotion expressed by this transaction that caused a swell in the recievers feelings, not the amount spent.
I do, however, acknowledge exceptions, other sides to this. It depends, ultimately, on the person involved, and their values. A individual may be materialistic, or imature, and feel that by spending only a little on a gift, that you do not truly love them - in which case a very different set of feelings may arise. And a simular individual may feel a positive, feeling of love with a more expensive gift, though i think this can often miander more into the realms of adoration than love, though not always.
A certain type of love, may arise in some individuals, in response to wealth. Or at least an attraction, which can lead, along the line, to the developement of love. But I feel ultimately that it is not money that leads to love, even in these cases - it arises seperate from money, or it arises due to a persons values, ways of thinking ect, and anything could be implemented in the place of money, if it still ticked the right boxes.
All that being said, if I could buy love, real love, would I? My first response would be - No. It would cheapen it. Or I would buy the sort of love that I could not reciprocate. Then I thought - what if money, could be used, to show love and affection, an amazing amount of love and affection? But then, maybe that would, again not be the sort of love I would want. I would want someone to love me, with small displays as much as huge ones, if the same feeling was there.
But what if, giving a certain amount of money, could lead to a magic wand being waved, and all certain obsticles being removed? Without losing integrity, changing things in the wrong way, or such? That waving this magic wand could make the right enviroment for love to blossom, where overwise it would not have done, but purely due to circumstances? A damn more difficult question to answer than I thought. The last way I mentioned, maybe.
Edit: Ahhh yes, generally speaking, much of the above post lol. My apologies.
