Why is it easier to hate then to love?

Answer 1

love takes more effort

Answer 2

I feel that to love someone or something requires risk , as humans we are so scared of being hurt that we close to love so often
i don't feel either is easier or harder to do
but to hate keeps us safe emotionally
when we do realise that its OK to take risks and that we can learn more from loving than hating , we often find that the love is reciprocated anyway .. we receive what we give out
so if we can get over the scary thought of being hurt by love , it becomes just as easy to do as it would to hate

Answer 3

It would be easier in a sense, to hate only if you do act on your hatred!! If you are burning churches, and crosses in lawns, well then my friend, I would believe it would be easier to love. Both involve some sort of energy, so I guess it depends on where you use the energy!

Answer 4

Let's start this off by defining both.

"Love-is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self love."


"Hate or hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon; a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy its object. "Hate" can also describe a state in which one strongly desires another living being to experience pain or negative affects, be they emotional or physical. The emotion is often stigmatized; yet it serves an important purpose, as does love. Just as love signals attachment, hatred signals detachment."

Now, while I can't say that it is truly easier to hate someone. It is easier to dislike them, or to disagree, as it maintains youre personal perspective and does not force you to become more open minded, or attempt to see it from another person's point of view. Love requires more emotional investment in another person and a far deeper, more profound understanding of that person. Not just of who they look like, but who they truly are deep down. It may require more emotional strength for some to love than it would to hate, but they both take alot to do, as strong emotions are tied to both.

Answer 5

None of the two is any easier; rather it is easier to repeat one of the two if - it is rooted in your character traints from childhood, I don't even believe in heritage.

From my personal experience; I migrated after adolescence, and that was when I came to learn of racism application or let me put it simple - in my childhood i was taught more about sharing, the take and give affair. Believe it or not. But up to now, when some one does something mean to me, I always think that he/she did it because he/she wanted to know if I appreciate him/her. I see that whenever i receive or go back to talking terms with this person.

Then my answer to this question truly is - wether hatred or love; equally not easy.

Answer 6

Love takes work, we have to accept the other persons faults and look past their weaknesses. Hate is easier, because all we do, is take out our frustration on the person it is aimed at, and focus all the negative feelings we have about ourselves and others towards that person.

Answer 7

you must be bananas!! it's much easier to love than to hate. the natural state of everything in this universe is in love. hate is only love that has gotten thwarted and twisted around and cannot escape or express itself properly. if you are stuck all tangled up in hate and have been for a long time, let me tell you that it's easy to get out of, you just have to relax enough to let it happen. and have a little faith in the universe and yourself.

Answer 8

Is it? I haven't been able to go worse than distaste and despising... I guess it depends on disposition. I need more energy and negative events to fuel negative emotions, especially in the long run. But then, it is hate that disconnects people and love that binds them, even though it may hurt sometimes. And I am not all that fond of feeling isolated.

Answer 9

I'm not sure that it is. We have propensities that incline us to this or that attitude in life, I feel, and whether or not we find it easier to love or hate depends on many things.
If we allow ourselves to be driven blindly by our wounding from the past then we will always react to others from fear rather than trust. If we deal with that wounding then the response naturally tends to be one of wise trust (rather than blind trust) and love.
From that point of view, Love is actually the natural state; that which connects us to others, or rather, allows us to experience our connection to others. The opposite is isolation and pain.
I don't go with the idea of original sin which keeps us in a position of powerlessness and guilt but rather that of original purity which empowers us to change our responses to life in a positive and creative way. We can change our lives by our responses to our feelings.
Besides, Love is always a more lastingly energizing thing than hate which gives a blaze then leaves you needing more stimulus and is so destructive and polluting to oneself and others.

Answer 10

There is a fine line between love and hate... Honestly hating someone is just a unique way of showing you care a bit too much about them to realize your over stepping your bounds. ;)

Answer 11

I dont think it is love comes natural,it takes lots of energy to hate!