If hate is the opposite of love, do we need it in order to truly understand the meaning of love and vise versa?
2006-07-18 05:06:07 · 15 answers · asked by addicktv 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You are absolutly right, the world is a balance, occasionally the ballance might weigh to one side, but there is still an opposite to everything. there is no absolutly good person nor is there an absolutly bad person. people dont do bad things because they want evil like some cliche cartoon movie, it is only doing what he or she thincks is right, which might not be what another person thinks ir right. Nothing is perfect.and nothing is totally imperfect. hopefully, they might come in an equal ballance, maybe even go halfay into the good side. God is the perfect thing. wether god is science, or allah, or buddah, YHWH,or jesus christ . By the way, our background matches, maybe we have some simmlarties, anyway my email is menelik4mekonnen@yahoo.com, sorry if you think i am impacted but if your are bored and you wanna talk abvout something like this i am there.
2006-07-18 05:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by Hades, Depressed & Dangerous 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Love is it's own entity, emotion and feeling that does not need hate to exist. Physics states every action has a reaction, this is where balance comes from. Last I checked love has little to do with physics.
2006-07-18 12:28:42 · answer #2 · answered by ridingdragon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no opposite of true love.
Hate is what is present in the absence of compassion, caring, or the term love. Hate is not opposite love.
Hate resides where love is absent.
A better opposite of love would be unfeeling, uncaring, greedy or abusive.
2006-07-18 12:13:20 · answer #3 · answered by rightonrighton 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a sense of being neutral, you know. I may not hate you nor love you. I may just accept you without either emotion, eh? Neutality is what most people feel when they walk into a domestic crowd like in a mall. There's no love, there's no hate. You're just neutral toward them.
2006-07-18 12:13:38 · answer #4 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you must have at least dislike in the world to have love because you need a feeling to compare the love to.without hate, that effectively means you like everything so when something happens that you truly like, you'd have to go one higher and love it in order for there to be any comparison of it to something else. tis means there would be no higher to go when you love something so couldn't love anything.
2006-07-18 12:13:14 · answer #5 · answered by StaceyMayBrown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love - as an appreciation of something - can exist without hate.
Consider a friend, destination or other - many times it don't start with hate.
2006-07-18 12:16:17 · answer #6 · answered by greyshadws 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have love without hate. Hate is not the opposite of love anyway. Indifference is.
2006-07-18 12:11:18 · answer #7 · answered by tampamar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe we do. Like in science, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. One can not exisit wihtout the other and for us to feel one, we must have had other emotions by which to measure.
2006-07-18 12:11:41 · answer #8 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, hate is the absence of love not the opposite. love can exist without hate as much as god can exist without the devil.
2006-07-18 14:41:29 · answer #9 · answered by nibbana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You can't know something without first knowing its opposite. For instance, try explaining the color blue to a person who's been blind since birth. That person won't comprehend because he or she hasn't experienced other colors, so you can't use them to compare.
2006-07-18 13:08:19 · answer #10 · answered by Philthy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋