Opposites? Is the opposite of love hate?

Question

I think indifference is the true opposite of love or hate, but I wanna know what you think ...

Answer 1

Hate and Love have a lot of things in common. For example, you have to have feelings for someone to feel either and they are both passionate emotions. But indifference means nothing. When we hate or love someone, the response that would hurt us the most is indifference. I would prefer someone hated me than to just be indifferent. At least I would know,even if its just negative things, that they think about me, acknowledge me, care what happens to me. (notice how all those are also things you do when you love someone.) Another one of my points are the fact that the definition of love and hate varies and so what do you judge on to call them opposites. Some people kill the people they love and some show mercy and affection to those they hate. In short (which is probably to late for that) When you love someone or something, its means EVERYTHING and when you hate someone or something its means A LOT if not just SOME, but with indifference you or it means nothing and NOTHING is most definitely the opposite of EVERYTHING.

Answer 2

If you love somebody, you care deeply for them.

Hate is the same as love in that way. You expend the same amount of energy hating a person as you would loving a person.

That's why my answer is also INDIFFERENCE.

If you truly don't care about someone would be the direct opposite of both love and hate. The trick is, though, that it's a lot easier to switch from love to hate than it would be to become indifferent.

Answer 3

Right you are, the opposite of love is indeed "indifference" - meaning the lack of all emotions. Hate is a very strong emotion and therefore cannot be the opposite of love.

Answer 4

The opposite of love should have an equal amount of emotional value so I will go with hate. Indifference just doesn't cut it for me.

Answer 5

I think that they are polar opposites, love and hate. With indifference balanced in the middle. I was raised believing you could not hate that which you never have loved. Therefore to declare you hate someone is also declaring that you have once loved them. My mother believed that we should hate ideas and actions....not people. I am raising my children in the same way.

Answer 6

Well, a simple answer is yes, Love is the opposite of hate, and vise versa. However, Love and hate can look the same when Love turns sic and twisted, as with everything there is a fine line drawn. For instance, "I loved to hate him, because doing anything else would hurt to much..." or "She hated him so much she loved to make him suffer by teasing him non-stop."
Then there's true Love which sounds like this..."She loved him so much she gave without expecting anything in return..." "He desired his wife to be happy; the depth of his loved stretched beyond the cares of his day."

Answer 7

I think some people have love and hate so intertwined in their mind that they switch to indifference which is really the same as hate.

Answer 8

When I broke up with my girlfriend, I wouldn't say I hated her because the energy it takes to hate, shows you still care. If something is worth the energy to hate, I think It's worth not hating. I'd go with indifference too.

Answer 9

Honestly, I think indifference is at a 90 degree angle to love and about 70 degrees away from hate...make that 72 degrees...yes, that's it.

Answer 10

I agree with you. You can love and hate someone at the same time, but you can never love/hate someone and feel indifferent toward them at the same time...