No worries, it's an excellent topic for discussion.
First: What is love?
Is it just that? a word? Or does it have definition?
One could say that love is an unconditional positive regard.
Is it lust? It is personal passion for another? Or is that something different.
The idea of loving compassion and universal compassion are the Buddhist definitions of real and undying love and I believe these are the same as what Christ has in mind when he speaks of love. Christ asks that we love everyone equally as we love ourselves.
This has almost nothing to do with the sexual imperative which can be overrun with desires that are not in keeping with the truth of it and instead are a failing of discipline within the self.
Now, we are just men and at times we fall prey to our own lack of discipline in context to any profound teaching from any master. But we can also find ourselves readily and easily adhering to these concepts too.
people who act selflessly to help another are exercising true universal love. there is no need to define who teh person is, only that we identify the need they have and to seek to end their suffering as best we can through our act of love and compassion.
To not act, when one can does not adhere to the 8 fold path or "middleway" of:
Right view
Right intention
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right concentration
If we were each to attain these virtuous traits, then the world and all within is safe!
If we were each to actually love our neighbour as we love ourselves, then the world and all within is safe!
I believe that Buddha and Jesus taught the same truth of human existence. They started with different audiences and different cultural context, but nevertheless...