Is Love Unconditional?

I have had a short life. I have had few experiences that can help me sort out the question I have in my mind right now, so I have taken the risk of going on a small rant that will hopefully clear things up for me. It might be very strange, but that is the way I take murky water and make it go back to its original transparent self. The question that clouds my mind right now is the following: is the statement “A man is only as good as what he loves,”* true? I would tend to argue that it is not true. This is because love is supposed to be unconditional, or at least so is what I’ve heard. If love is unconditional then it would be based on the fact that anyone can fall in love with anything at all, better or worse than himself. However, can we really-can anyone- judge other people and things to determine whether they are better or worse than something else? Is there a better and a worse? If there is then it could be argued that regardless of the fact that love “doesn’t discriminate” loving a certain thing just proofs that you are as good as that same thing or person because you find in them what you like, and you are what you like. Thus, this statement could be dismissed as true. If there is no better and worse, or if there is but we don’t have the power to determine which is which, then it would be impossible to show that a man is or is not as good as what he loves. Why does it matter, anyway? I don’t know why this passage struck me as something interesting, but as I read it I just felt like it deserved more consideration than any other normal sentence and so I decided to dissect it ant try to see if it was veridical or not. I still have no answer, but at least I have two clear choices now. Maybe one day when I have more than hypothetical assumptions to back my arguments up I will be able to state a clear answer to this, and figure out why this sentence seemed more important to me than others.

*Bellow, pg. 7.