Do you love anyone in a non-sexual way, besides family?

Yes I do. Wow you don't love your parents? Seriously? If my children ever didn't love me I'd be so gutted it would be unreal.

I would say on the contrary, one always loves their parents, even if not necessarily liking them. The reason you may not realise it is due to the fact that they have always been present within your life. If anything were to happen to them, G-d forbid, you would probably realise that what you felt for them was actual love.
Aristotle classified the two as very different types of love. The love you feel for your parents is a form of agape, which is unconditional love. The love you feel for your best friend is a form of philia, loosely translated as friendship. Since philia requires work to produce and demands investment, you probably feel it more, almost as if you succeeded in conquering your friend's friendship or creating one from scratch. Your parents on the other hand will always be loved by you.

not to derail the thread, but do people actually love their parents? I like them, but not as much as say, my best friend.

not to derail the thread, but do people actually love their parents? I like them, but not as much as say, my best friend.

Jusitn Bieber

Of course, I love my friends.

My fish.

Is that an euphemism for your 'down there'?

I don't know if you were joking with this one or not but I love Justin Bieber to the moon and beyond.

Ever read or seen Shakespeare's King Lear?

I love my parents because they're my parents, not because I love them as people. I love them because they've raised me and provided for me etc. so I'm grateful and I could never hate them but if I met them as strangers, we probably wouldn't get along with our personalities. I think most people are like that just that some happen to have personalities that click so they love their parents outside the general parent-child bond that they have. There's nothing wrong with only loving them because of who they are but it's just a different type of love.

The Greeks had it right with their four types of love:

Agape - Spiritual, selfless, unconditional love. Parent to a child. Partner to partner.

Eros - Physical, sexual, romantic, infatuation, step above friendship.

Philia - Mental, affection, friendship, loyalty, give and take.

Storge - Natural affection due to circumstances, the usual in families.

Nice to see someone else familiar with the four loves. Although I think love between friends is more of a grander stage than philia, bordering on the symptoms of eros without the physical infatuation. In a sense therefore, despite current gross misuse of the term, a form of Platonic love.