Are Love Spells Ethical?

It is important to consider that each and every person has a different code of ethics. Some of these are rooted in humanitarian beliefs, others in religious traditions, and still others in practical or pragmatic terms. The ethicality of using any spells – love spells or otherwise – will vary depending on what a given individual believes. That being said, there is some debate on the ethicality of love spells.

This is a debate mainly regarding if love spells impact or alter free will. The fact of the matter is, some love spells do. There are many dogmatic magical practitioners who will absolutely refuse to perform any spell that alters free will. Others will have no problems doing so, while others still will have no qualms with offering curses, hexes, and overtly destructive spells. This is all a matter of preference for each caster and I personally do not believe I am here to judge or criticize any other practitioner for his or her methodology.

What is important to remember is that not all love spells alter free will – love spells that work without doing so are completely outside the scope of ethical questioning. As they do not impact free will, there is no risk of them being unethical. These spells are as innocuous and innocent as any regular daily action; the difference is that they still have amazing abilities to produce stunning results. You do not need a spell that impacts or alters free will in order to repair a relationship, stop cheating, get someone to love you, or any other love-related issue.

Regarding spells that do impact free will, a strong argument in favor of these is that although free will is impacted our free will is also hindered and changed by ordinary behaviors in the course of regular life. For example, if your significant other falls in love with someone else you certainly do not have the liberty to do with him or her as before, nor do you have the free will to change his or her mind into loving you again. Rather, the addition of a third party into your relationship impacted his or her free will! This illustrates how our free will is constantly being tugged back and forth by external forces; we are never in a complete vacuum of free will. We don’t truly have what could be referred to as complete, or radical, free will.

Keeping this in mind, using any spell that alters free will does nothing more than any mundane action that alters free will. Because we are constantly engaging in actions that alter the free will of others without our even knowing it, we are either blameless or guilty of constant, repeated ethical violations. In either situation, we do not really add a significant ethical problem to the equation by casting spells that alter free will.

A final thought on spells that alter free will is the intended result. But let us start with an analogy. If you see a man walking into the middle of the road, about to get hit by a bus, would you leap out and grab him, pulling him out of the way? To do so, to forcefully restrain him, would be to alter his free will. Yet, most people would say it is acceptable to do so. This is because we find it acceptable to alter free will if the end result is something positive. With love spells, the end result is almost always positive. Therefore, the same could be said of love spells – it is perfectly acceptable to cast a love spell that alters free will assuming that the end result will be positive.