if love and hate is similiar why hate and love have diffrent meanings?

Answer 1

Because they are opposites. It's all apart of the balance of life.

Answer 2

Because following the Spanish Inquisition the use of polar opposites to explain circumstances became prevolent in society. Instead of things being divided into this or something else, things were divided into this or that, good or bad, right or wrong, white or black, day or night, love or hate. It is the whole looking for the devil concept. If love is good and godly then hate must be bad and the work of the devil. Prior to this period Love was understood to come in many forms, brotherly love, selfless love, family love, friendly love, romantic love, and so on. I believe the Greeks had nine different forms of love. Interesting, when you try and interpret the Bible and find out that a different Greek word was used for love. Hate, I would argue is supposed to be another form of love. Back to the Bible, God is supposed to have hardened men's hearts to creat hate in the Old Testament, but clearly in the New Testament this is supposed to be a God of love. Only logical conclusion is that hate is a form of love. After all, if you can understand the concept of absence then you can understand the concept of how hate is created. Remove trust and honesty from a relationship and all you are left with is caring. Caring is consistent in both love and hate. You don't hate someone dispassionately. You hate them vehemently. You love them dearly. The problem is that people lost this understanding when everything became either or. I have hear people saying if you hate you are going to hell. I say if you don't hate then you can never love because you simple don't care enough to truly love another. I know this reads like a Bible study class but it is the best example of what went wrong and why. Simply stated, words have been changed over time and lost much of their meaning. Like that movie last year, things were Lost in Translation.

Answer 3

Hmm interesting.

Because they are defined on what's DISSIMILAR.
And then we maximize those values,
to make them seem like divisive opposites.

Not unlike how Aristotle characterized Humans as
"Rational animals"
And so, standing apart from the lower creatures,
REASON became the ONLY way to be truly human.

Care is vital for both hate and love...
ignorance seems a more natural opposite.

I may hate a dear friend for some atrocious thing she has done,
but that anger is reflective of my care for her. That I don't want her to be such a way, or to continue what I deem her misbeaving. Of course that anger is a kind of ignorance itself, that I'm frustrated I can't communicate with her in the proper way to make my point without force. But nonetheless, totally ignoring her 'misbehavior' seems to be even worse. In so doing, the friendship ends and she becomes distant, enemy, suspect, and other.

Answer 4

Love and hate are not similar---they are exact opposites. They are often compared because love is the absence of hate and hate is the absence of love. Read Ecclesiastes chapter three in the Old Testament of the Bible and you will get an idea of what I am talking about .

Answer 5

Love and hate are opposites not similar.

If you are referring to the saying that "there is a thin line between love and hate," that is true, in a sense.

Which brings up another lyric from an old song, "...you only hurt the one you love."

Answer 6

Love and hate are similar because of the fact that both include the amount of care and attention u focus on one person
the difference is that love is an intense positive care for a person hate is an intense negative care for a person an example is if you love someone you spend your time thinking of how to please them if you hate them you spend your time thinking of how to hurt them physically mentally or socially

Answer 7

THat is because the effects and roots are different. LOve is a positive feeling but hate is a negative feeling. Hence, people who receives the effect suffer different fates too!

Answer 8

love and hate are opposites. They are both very strong feelings, but have nothing to do with the other.

Answer 9

There is no Dark, darkness is just the absence of light. There is no evil, evil is just the absence of good. Same with Hate, there is no Hate, Hate is just the absence of love.

Answer 10

You answered your own question. If you think they are similar they can still have different meanings. They are not the same. Are you really confused about this? It seems pretty apparent. Similar does not mean identical.