It seems that the only type of love that is truly unconditional, asking for nothing in return and sometimes getting nothing in return, is maternal love. Otto Wininger's description of maternal love is that of an instinctive and natural impulse. He reaches his conclusion only by comparing a human mother to that of an animal. However, Wininger's analogy that "maternal love cannot be truly represented as having moral grounds" is implausible, because human mothers are very well capable of reasoning and making rather morally based decisions. on their own individual morality. Wininger's statement not only relies on the comparison of women and animals, but also ignores the reality of today's society. As there are extreme abortions, children given up for adoption and children neglected, abused and even killed by the hands of their own mothers. Whether these actions are rational or not, they involve a set of moral reasoning. Maternal love seems to be both human and animal in nature, but a human mother and an animal cannot be compared, even for an act of love on the part of a human mother. ...