Do you believe there is a fine line between love and hate?

Answer 1

I've never understood that statement. What I feel for my wife can't be explained. I love her more every day. Hate is no where near there and isn't even a concept in our relationship.

Answer 2

Ok, love is the feeling you have for a person when the person does what you want and can except of him/her. Hate in 99% of situations is not hate but hurt. There is dislike in what a person does or does not do, that is what many think is hate. Hate is when the person just hurts you for years and years until you just are totally overwhelmed with them and even then, it probably is not hate, but hurt.
No, there is no fine line between love and hate but there is a fine line between love and hurt.

Answer 3

We can compare the two, to find out what the major similarities are, and perhaps the only minor difference is between the two: So, I will try to argue that they are almost the same as each other, except one difference.

Assume that we are comparing very strong love, to very strong, hatred. Assume also that we are just talking about the love and hate between one person and another - not between a person and something else (i.e. NOT, "I love my car" or "I hate my job").

1) In both love and hate, we focus a lot of our attention, intention, and thoughts towards the person we love/hate.

2) When we love and hate, we are thinking very little about yourself, we are only fixated on the other person.

3) The ultimate expression of love is self-sacrifice (lets say between person “A” who gives their life for person “B”). The ultimate expression of hate is murder (lets say person “A” murders person “B”). Either way, the net effect is the same, and one person (either “A” or “B”) will die.

4) Philosophically, love might be seen as a quest for unity, to unite two people, to share positive emotions and intentions. Hate is also a quest for unity, where people who hate each other will seek each other out to pour out their negative emotions and intentions.

5) People enjoy the feeling of love when they think of the person they love, and people who enjoy feeling hate will think of the person they hate.

So, they are very similar in those aspects.

But they are also different in the following way:

The difference is that love will favour the preservation of life, and compassionate, cooperative feelings - but hatred will favour the destruction of life, and aggressive, competitive feelings. Basically, love will succeed most in benefiting the individual, which I think is why it makes us feel good - even though love is very similar to hatred in many aspects.

Answer 4

then a man says they love or hate something theres a line. when a women says it there isnt really a line because they end up being friends 10 seconds later anyway

Answer 5

yes, I know because:

there is also a fine line between pleasure and pain
you;ve done it once, you can do it again
whatever you've done, don't try to explain
there's a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain

(just some song lyrics to drive the point home) ;)

Answer 6

Most definitely... At times I really really dislike my mum so much that it makes me think that if I wasn't her daughter, i'd want nothing to do with her.

We have our moments.

Same with my brother, sometimes I feel everything BUT love for him.......it's a very very fine line

Answer 7

The same as the line between war and peace.

Answer 8

People like to believe that, but in actuality hate is love, but they are just upset they still love that person...The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

Answer 9

yes i do. there are some people that im around on a daily basis that fluncuate from love to hate so often, i dont know what to think anymore

Answer 10

A very fine, very blurry line.

"You can not hate strongly unless you have loved strongly."

"The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference."