Does every human have the capacity to love or are there inferior degenerates who are just haters?

Answer 1

To my mind the best answer to this is simillar that given by Socrates om whatever they are good and bad people. People incapable to love do not exist they are simly peole with pervented sence of love

Answer 2

I feel this question really IS a philosiphacal question, and its kind of hard to answer. I suppose that in a way that every human once in their lifetime have the capacity to love, but perhaps their nurture and influence by others and their saroundings would make them more or less incappable to do so. Still, most of these people simply have large egos, and allow those egos to control the way they do things, and the way they feel about other people. It makes a mental blockade, and restrains them from seeing anything less than themselves. I suppose some, "inferior degenerates who are just haters" would'n't be able to understand the value of other people other than themselves, or why they should care.

In conclusion, I think that every human has the "capacity" to love, but there ARE, "inferior degenerates who are just haters", that simply refuse to - their ego pushing them down into hate.

One example is my own mother. I love her and all, but after I was about 10, I began to see that she began to grow a pretty large ego. After she had my twin brothers, my mom and dad started to have a fight, and she and I had a terrible bond. She stayed at home all the time with her favorite twin, and always threatened to take the twins and leave me with my dad. It also left me with a strong bond with my dad, and I suppose that she was slowly beginning to develop the incababitlity to love.

Answer 3

Interesting question.....
Plato conjectured that some are capable of understanding love while others are not. It seems humans often confuse many other emotions as love..lust, desire, value, among many others. Even within personal love, philosophers from the ancient Greeks on have traditionally distinguished three notions that can properly be called “love”: eros, agape, and philia. This thing, this "love" seems to encompass both positive and negative emotions. Hate, the ultimate negative, must then, be the other side of love.
Humans are the only species on this planet that are said to be capable of higher intellect, and enhanced emotional states. Love and hate certainly fall under this.
So, yes, every human has the capacity , but maybe not the capability. Even the most kind, caring, loving people can feel hate. It isn't degenerate, its simply human.

Answer 4

"Inferior degenerates"? I'm not sure what you mean by that. I like to avoid describing human beings in such reductive terms, like they were bad products on the assembly line or something. But I guess you could say that certain people, who have had either experiences or organic mental handicaps which prevent them from ever being able to love, are "inferior degenerates." (Sociopathy is the result of retardation, brain damage, or early childhood neglect/maltreatment) You'd be making a judgment against them, however, and that feels unfair to me because I don't believe any whole, undamaged human being *could* willfully forfeit the capacity to love. I believe the capacity to love is intrinsic & essential to human nature.

Answer 5

Everyone has the capacity to love. Some have more than others.

People who hate themselves often turn that hatred outward toward others. Until they learn to love themselves they can not love others. They have probably suffered a great deal of pain, abuse & neglect since childhood that has made them that way. They could learn to overcome it if they are aware of the problem & commit themselves to changing. A hateful person can become loving, a negative person can be positive. It just takes a lot of hard work to undo the damage that the past has done. As humans we all react to pain. We strive to protect ourselves. Hatred & anger are the armour people wear when they have been hurt too much. But they will never be happy this way...The key is to find peace within oneself. Learn to love yourself & let go of the pain. The past can't be undone but we can choose to live in the present & make the best of it.

Answer 6

There is love, there is no feeling and there is hate. I think the middle term, no feeling, is a competency question but the idea of biological deformity can not be properly ignored. The extreme opposite for love, hate, is again a competency question which I shall elucidate with the following insert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Erickson

Stage One Oral-Sensory: from birth to one, trust vs. mistrust, feeding;
Stage Two Muscular-Anal: 1-3 years, autonomy vs. doubt, toilet training;
Stage Three Locomotor: 3-6 years, initiative vs. inadequacy, independence;
Stage Four Latency: 6-12 years, industry vs. inferiority, school;
Stage Five Adolescence: 12-18 years, identity vs. confusion, peer relationships;
Stage Six Young Adulthood: 18-40 years, intimacy vs. isolation, love relationships;
Stage Seven Middle Adulthood: 40-65 years, generativity vs. stagnation, parenting;
Stage Eight Maturity: 65 years until death, integrity vs. despair, acceptance of one's life.

Every subsequent stage for human socio-emotional development has as its determinant the preceding stage, the stage before this one. Each stage has a possible positive spiritual trophic experience which puts conditions for the next stage. Here is a list for those positives:

hope
will
purpose
competence
fidelity
love (in intimate relationships, work and family)
caring
wisdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Erickson

As a matter of course all stages are valuable and determinant, but I believe stage five is the most critical as a love/hate determinant.

Answer 7

Hummmmm, In my job I have met some women who I do not believe loved their children. Taking a leap of logic, I believe that the mother/child bond is one of the strongest in the world. If it is possible not have that then I do believe those women may not love anyone. So I would say yes, they must just not have that capacity. And could quite possible be "inferior degenerates who are just haters" as you put it.

Answer 8

What a judgmental position to take on the emotions of others.

Love is a feeling of affection. I am not required to love or have affection for everyone including those who hurt you, hurt me, or hurt others.

If that earns me the label "degenerate", so be it.

I don't know you. I have no reason to feel affection for you, therefore I do not love you. Sorry, I'm sure others do.

Answer 9

There are people who do not have the capacity to love: they are called sociopaths. They literally do not have the capacity to care about others.
Not all sociopaths are murderers - some are just narcissistic jerks.

Answer 10

There are people who hate who are not sociopaths. These unhappy people can't face their own problems (or maybe that should be, fix them), anyway, they're frustrated, aggressive and it's everybody else's fault their world sucks, especially those (whatever group they pick to hate) people. Sometimes they grow out of it, sometimes they don't. More to be pitied than feared, they miss so much out of life by dwelling in their pasts, and not letting go of whatever they blame themselves for.