People are constantly asking for love spells wherever they are from, and are constantly debating the merits and faults of them. But are love spells ethical?

A good way to tell if they are ethical or not is to try to compare the love spell to a real-life action.

Ethical spells can all be related to benign actions in real-life... getting a makeover, being in the right place at the right time, etc. What other sorts of ethical love spells are out there? How about spells to help you be more sensitive to a partner's needs? Or a spell to help you over a bad breakup? Maybe you could benefit from a spell to help you have more constructive romantic relationships.

From here, we can surely get to a definition of an ethical love spell. It would simply be a spell that does not negatively manipulate people so that you can win the object of your affection, nor is it a spell where the method or result would be illegal if translated into real-life actions.

Casting a love spell that is designed to make other people jealous or to break up a current relationship are examples of negatively manipulative magic. They are also examples of magic designed to win the affections of a specific person. This is another red ethical flag, however, this is the most commonly requested type of love spell. "Make her love me!" or "Make him come back to me!".

Would you be happy if someone you didn't want to be with kept trying to get you into a relationship? Would you be happy if someone you didn't want to stay with kept forcing you to stick with the relationship?

What you put out, you get back. If you perform this sort of destructively manipulative magic, you won't end up with what you want in the end. No amount of magic is going to make happily ever after out of a relationship that doesn't work. All it will do is end up adding to the bitterness of the situation when things finally fall apart. Yes, this is harsh. But it's the truth.

Think that's a little dramatic? Perhaps. But this is the sort of thing that can happen when you start playing with other people. The spell you cast to make your ex-boyfriend break up with his new girlfriend could end in her having a horrible car accident and ending up in a coma. The spell you cast to make your wife stay in the marriage could end up with her having a baby she doesn't want, leaving you anyway, and you're left to raise the child alone.

Don't pretend it's "for his own good" when it's really "because that's what I want". Remember that magic is not a band-aid. Love is one of the strongest human emotions, and to attempt to bend it to your will is a naïve idea at best, and a dangerous situation at worst. In the end, you will be a lot happier.