Is this a valid argument?

Question

Although hate can be a motivator, love is a much better motivator than hate. Some people, for example, may be motivated by the obstacle of being told that they can't do something. Women's suffrage and other equal rights movements are based on this premise. However, if you've ever been motivated in this way, you also know that the hate, although it drives you, leaves you torn and battered at the end of a long journey. Love on the other hand can motivate a single woman to get an education for the sake of bettering her children's future. It can motivate a physically challenged person to show the world the potential and determination of humanity to overcome obstacles. It can lead a family in persecution to freedom despite the hate of oppressors. And in the end it leaves those whom it has motivated with inspiration and happiness beyond belief. Love is, after all the very thing that has motivated all of the great leaders of our times and past. Martin Luther, Mohamad, and Christ himself. Yes, love is the greatest motivator of all!

Answer 1

We can perform all kind of things for the sake of love.

Undeniable, people are changing for the better due to the encouragement of love. Conversely, love is blind, given to jealousy and distortion for the mind. Occasionally, the love situation may lapse into repercussion. As such, a jealous heart becomes recourse for revenge. Likewise, crime has been committed out of love--- the influence of one over the other with love being the attraction for the violation. Somehow or other, the mind can do wonders that seem illogical but clearly in the name of love.

Answer 2

Its not really an argument at all, let alone a valid one.
An argument implies that you put forward a position and back it up with reasoning. A valid argument is an argument in which the premises you use to back up your reasoning logically entail your conclusion:
I.e The things you state, fit together in such a way as to logically lead to the position that you want to endorse.
(In this case that love is a much better motivator than hate).
You didn't provide this, all you really did was give your opinion.

I don't really see your point anyway. Hate motivated Hitler and the Nazis, Attila the Hun, countless rapists and murderers, George Bush, Franco, Stalin, fascists, rascists, all of whom people have thought of as 'great leaders' and all of whom invested massive energy and time and resources to carrying out their destructive ends.
Some kind of sentimentalist language and anecdotes don't change this. People can be motivated by either love or hate, depending on their characters, and whether they aspire to help humanity or to destroy them and gain power.

If love was a stronger motivator than hate, then why the hell do we still live in a world racked by greed, callousness, war, rascism and selfish individualism etc, instead of a utopia where love has triumphed over evil by grace of its greater motivational power?

Answer 3

Unfortunately, there are quite a few leaders who were and are driven by hate... I tend to agree with you that love is a better motivator, but simply because I prefer love above hate and I prefer those who love above those who hate. The problem with your argument, I think, is that you do not explain why or how love is a better motivator - except for the fact that we intuitively like it better. If it is not by the results (as both can lead to great accomplishments), then why? Because love-driven people are happier? Even if that is so, their happiness, in your argument, has nothing to do with their accomplishments, but only with the fact that they are motivated by love. Then the question remains, why is love a better motivator?

Answer 4

You get your point across, but, no, technically speaking, it is not a valid argument. It is possible for the conclusion to be false and the premises to be true. The reason is that you didn't demonstrate a *logical* connection between the two at all.

Answer 5

i would rather do something in love then to do it with hate