Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.2 EL

Summary of text [comment] pages 78 and 79

[What are some consequences for the social system?

The inability to love produces failure through a feedback mechanism that dissipates potential energy rather than coupling it to constructive purpose.

In effect, the ‘inability to love’ is parasitic. Like all parasitic structures, the energy that it uses to sustain itself reduces the energy available to others in the system.

The entire spontaneous order becomes impoverished.]