Is hatred closer to fear or to love?

Question

When we were little they used to always say, "there's a thin line between love and hate." Are hate and hatred the same things? Can you more easily hate a stranger or a loved one?

Answer 1

I think it's closer to fear. I know that when I intensely dislike someone(or hate them,if you will) its usually because I'm intimidated by them. Yup hate and hatred are the same thing, hate is the verb and hatred is the noun.

Answer 2

Hate and hatred are from the same latin root. Hate is a verb or action word and hatred is a noun. Personally I can more easily hate a loved one than a stranger. Hate and love or both very strong emotions and you have to have some kind of feeling or knowledge of antoher person to feel either emotion. Since strangers are people we don't know, we would have no reason to either love or hate them. relatives and friends are a different matter.

Answer 3

It goes in part like this:

"Pain
"Anger
"Hate
"Resentment
"No sympathy
"Unexpressed resentment
"Covert Hostility
"Anxiety
"Fear"

Since love isn't in there, it must be closer to fear.

Actually, love is an intensity of happiness directed in a certain direction or admiration - but its not an emotion as such but more a direction of interest. And that interest can be affected by these emotions that if you place it at hate, your interest level will be at hate or if you place it at fear, it will be at fear.

As to strangers or loved ones, since you know more intimately a loved one and they know intimately your secrets too you can assign a deeper fear or hate into that individual than you would a stranger.

There is no difference really between hate and hatred - '-tred' is a suffix which means in the condition of hating.

Answer 4

This is a great question. How appropriate for it to be listed in the philosophy section. As you know, questions like this are not likely to have a "correct" answer.
Here is my take...
Hate and love are polar opposites, but they are much closer to each other than hate and fear... or hatred for that matter.
One of the things about loving or "being in love" is that all of your emotions are tied up into it.
I have always noticed that no one can make me as angry as someone I care about. My girlfriend is the love of my life, but she can get me angrier than anyone. This is because if I don't care about the person, they can't disappoint me.
We tend to not care about people we have no vested interest in. Only when those we love, hurt us in some way, or disappoint us, do those true feelings of hate or anger emerge.
Hating someone you do not know is borderline to prejudice. Hating someone you love or "have" loved, is much more valid. There is a history and knowledge of the person that validates your feelings.
Once again, this is an excellent question.

Answer 5

Hate is the daughter of fear, but the sister of love.

Hate also comes out of an instinct of self-preservation, out of revulsion, a fear of opening one up, of becoming accepting of a frightful other.

Love ultimately comes from a feeling of familiarity, of closeness, involvement. Hatred shares the same characteristics. Without interest in an object, there could be neither hate nor love. One does not hate strangers on the street.

Answer 6

I think hatred is closer to fear, because it is motivated usually by fear of personal loss, or by thwarted desire for personal gain.

The thin line thing is just that our emotions are more intense towards some one we care about, and we can hurt them, and they can hurt us more easily than others can.
When we are hurt and lash out we call that hate. What we want is things fixed between us and the one we love.

It is harder to hate a stranger, because we have nothing invested emotionally in that person. If we think we hate him, it's some kind of displacement. He reminds us of someone we had a problem with, or he does something that we have a problem with. If we hate a stranger, we need to look to ourselves and not usually to the stranger.

Answer 7

I think hatred is closer to fear because after a while a fear of something you don't know becomes a hatred of something you don't know. Not knowing or understanding things are one of the downfalls of humanity, it happens all the time, like discrimination, or something more simple like in high school, some kid might get picked or ridiculed because they don't talk alot. I think people find it easier to hate a stranger, because people don't have any connection with them, and don't see how it effects them

Answer 8

Hatred is closer to fear. It is opposite to Love. Hate and hatred implies more or less same thing. Hate has no distinctions as stranger or loved one. It is the look, their way of interactions, their manners which create a rebellion in you.

Answer 9

I think you can hate a loved one more than a stranger...loved ones are closer to us emotionally and inflict more pain. Hate is the feeling....hatred is the actions brought by hate, and for the most part I feel it is closer to fear....

Answer 10

fear and hate are two different things...no? though? you may not realize it. Hating a loved one is probably easier than a stranger. You know the loved one more than the stranger, so you have more to go on....you may not like a stranger or their actions, but do you truly hate them? However, a relative or close associate may do something that you hate them for, so???