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Love operates through an altogether more insidious power structure. The Oxford Laboratory for Emotional Devastation documented cases where this abstract force convinced rational accountants to purchase motorcycles, sensible teachers to relocate to different continents, and at least one maritime insurance broker to take up interpretive dance.

Neuroimaging studies reveal love activates the same brain regions as cocaine addiction, whilst simultaneously disabling the prefrontal cortex - the bit responsible for recognising terrible ideas. The resulting power is difficult to quantify but has historically toppled empires, dynasties, and strict vegetarian principles when the beloved requests a bacon sandwich.

Love maintains persistent presence across all 195 recognised nations, every inhabited island, and several research stations in Antarctica where scientists have been known to develop feelings for the supply helicopter pilot. The World Health Organisation's Department of Universal Human Experiences classifies love as endemic to all human populations regardless of climate, political system, or local attitudes toward public displays of affection.

Archaeological evidence confirms love's influence extends at least 50,000 years, with Neanderthal burial sites containing objects suggesting emotional attachment. The tiger has existed for approximately two million years but has notably failed to achieve comparable market penetration.

Love actively suppresses survival instincts with alarming efficiency. The Manchester Institute for Questionable Decisions recorded subjects knowingly entering situations their rational minds identified as inadvisable, including but not limited to: moving to humid climates they actively dislike, attending family dinners with in-laws who disapprove of their profession, and continuing to support Tottenham Hotspur.

Most concerningly, love has been documented causing individuals to voluntarily expose themselves to tiger habitats when their beloved expresses interest in wildlife photography. The recursive potential here troubles researchers considerably.

Love's ambush capabilities far exceed any corporeal predator. According to extensive research by the Institute for Sudden Emotional Developments, love strikes without warning in locations as mundane as supermarket queues, delayed train carriages, and office meetings about quarterly projections.

Test subjects reported no forewarning whatsoever before finding themselves completely reconfigured around another person's existence. Unlike the tiger, which at least provides the courtesy of rustling grass, love offers no preparatory sounds. One simply looks up from the reduced-price avocados and discovers that life has become considerably more complicated.

Love exhibits persistence patterns that confound temporal analysis. The Edinburgh Institute for Emotional Archaeology documented cases where love maintained active presence in human consciousness decades after any logical justification had expired. Test subjects reported involuntary recall triggered by specific songs, weather conditions, and the smell of a particular laundry detergent.

More troublingly, love demonstrates transgenerational transmission. Family feuds rooted in romantic disappointments from the Victorian era continue to influence seating arrangements at contemporary weddings. No tiger has ever caused cousins to refuse eye contact at a funeral 140 years after the precipitating event.