Do you believe it is possible to hate something or someone without loving it/ them first?

Answer 1

Social hate: anger from fear. Tho' not with hatred, we are born negative first, but not with specificity. It is a readiness to know something, and if good is sensed in it, then we have a positive. If bad is sensed in it, then our negativity expands according to the new knowledge of that experiences sense substance. Good experiences expand the positive for self. Good and bad experiences may be in self; natural revulsions to bitters and the smell of death. The prejudice for universal error, e.g. racism, is a conditioned response to the kind of thing and by spiritual extension anything symbolized for it.

Everything is a thing in its self.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 2

Hate can be an excuse for something else that isn't right in your life. Some people love to hate or are obsessed with negative emotions. How many times have you decided that you hate something without even trying it? If it is a person with some negative cues, I suggest looking at the entire person before judging them too harshly. I try not to use the word hate.

Answer 3

Hate and love sit very close together on the emotional scale. I've pondered because I've started using the word hate about people for the first time in my 56 years, and as I have analyzed it, I remember in people, it is their behavior I hate, not the person. I may hate being around them etc, but I don't hate all of them. I'm not quite sure you can hate a person unless you've had enough time with them to find out who they really are. You can't read a book by its cover. I went to the vet, hated her the first time and swore I'd never go to her again in that office, and I did and now she is my fave ? So much for first impressions.l

Answer 4

Hating is a preference based on personal likes and dislikes even before one loves someone or it. Hating someone or it, after loving, is a reaction from having loved but somewhere along the way, something went wrong that tilted this love to hate. Also, this may happen the other way around.

Answer 5

Yes, the things you do not choose in your life. If someone dips your face in a bowl of sh1t, you're gonna hate this without loving it first. You didn't choose it. However, this is half true - it's doesn't really make much sense to hate what's out of your control. Remember the joke - "relax and try to enjoy it".

Things which are under your control will most probably be hated after you love them first. This is also half true - if you wouldn't love them, you wouldn't hate them later, so... what you really hate in this case is... yourself?

So, the simple, easy-to-understand, and (according to Murphy laws) wrong answer to your question is... The only thing you can really hate is 'yourself', and it's quite improbable you will do this without loving it first.

Answer 6

I hate mold. I have a mold allergy. Mold is disgusting and causes bacterial infection. Ironically it can also, in limited quantity, help heal bacterial infection. So, I hate mold, and I love it. I didn't understand the whole idea behind the goodness of mold until I learned more, but I still hate the idea of being near mold and keep my home very clean or clean enough to not become ill.

I also hate my deceased husband. I also once loved him before he gave in to booze and crack which killed him. I guess I don't really hate him. I hate the booze and crack that killed him, but it was his own free will of giving into the substance that killed him.

So, yes you can hate something without loving it first, but it's important to understand why it's so hated. You don't have to love it, you just have to learn to understand it's possibilities and leave if it's wrong for you.

Answer 7

Yes, I believe it is possible.
I hate the woman who beat my nephew into a coma when he was a year old. That was his biological mother, and I have never, ever loved her. And I hate her with every fiber of my body.
I hate president Bush. I've never met the man, never intend to, and I think he's a complete moron whose choosing to make my fiance go into a war we'll never win.
So yes, I know it's possible to hate something without ever having loved it first.
But, that being said- I don't believe it's possible to hate something to the depths of you if you've never loved something that much too.
I wouldn't hate Bush so much if he weren't putting someone I loved so deeply in harm's way.
And I wouldn't loathe my nephew's biological mother if I didn't love him to the depths of me.
So loving the thing you hate? Not so much. But loving something attached to it.. perhaps.
Great question!

Answer 8

Ella S has described it very beautifully but it has an other aspect also that yes it is possible to hate someone without loving him/her because it has happened many times with me. I don't know what is it, whether it is their attitude or manner because of which i instantly start hating somebody.

Answer 9

Yes,

Just as a child tries peanut butter and decides at his first try he hates it so do people decide they hate a person just because of a funny look.

So yes you can hate with no first love. Although, love is greater than hatered.

Answer 10

The opposite of hate is not love. It is indifference. It takes alot to hate someone, it means you are thinking about them (whether it be good or bad) and they are taking up space in your head. To quit loving someone is to just not care anymore. You don't waste time or thought on them. What I am trying to say is, that you have to love someone in order to hate them, and you wouldn't hate them if you didn't still have feelings for them anymore.