about passions...?

Question

which is stronger, love or hate? (explain)

Answer 1

Hate is a more deep primal emotion, but hate often drives a part of love, as the 'craziness' in love, so it actually depends on the situation. If all you have is a driving hate toward someone it is likely to consume and empower you to take action. When love, and only love, is focused on one person it can floating, easily there, and more easily lost. If however, by someone else or the object of affection, causes you to hate you are like as not to become defensive and prepared to fight to the death for your love in the spirit of hate.
But this is a very basic explanation, and only my opinion so it probably isn't even right.

Answer 2

Wow, that is a tough one because they are both on the extreems of the passion spectrum.

Hmmm, I would have to say hate is stronger. When you hate your body goes into a whole different mode of operation. Your heartrate increases, your ujdgement becomes clouded. (both of which can be said about love too).

But the difference is the hole you can dig yourself into emotionally with hate. Hate is destructive, it corrupts the soul (soul, not in the Christian sense, but the philosophical definition).

Furthermore, when you act apon hate your actions reap much more powerful results/consequences than love does.

Hate tears down, love builds up. Example: if 2 people hate each other they will kill each other, population decreases. If two people love each other, they will make babies, population increases.

Destruction is always seen as a more powerful concept than creation.

You fall into and out of love, but once you hate someone/something, the chances of that hate disappearing is next to none.

So in my opinon, hate is the stronger passion.

Answer 3

There is no hate without love. Hate needs passion. Love is the source of any passion. Love for a person. Love for science. Love for something. Love for an idea.
Hate is a misguided response to lost/refused/hurt/threatened love for any of the above.
Therefore love is stronger as it is the source of any aspect of hate...

Answer 4

Hate is stronger. Why, if love were stronger, why couldn't the leaders and countries of the world conquer it's problems and differences? Apparently, hate lasts longer. If you hate someone, you avoid them for the rest of your life without any second thoughts. If you "love" someone, it could last about 3 months. "Love" is so overused a word it is meaningless and jaded. I hate the word. I hate that there is hate but love is an illusion.

Answer 5

Love.. ♥
because if you have love then its a stronger trust in the other person with you
=]
and hate aint really strong cause you dont have trust in hate.

Answer 6

Love is stronger. Hate will eat you up and devour you. So will love, but love will build you into a stronger person, one that resists hate.

Answer 7

Hate occurs when there is no love. If a person feels unloved and unwanted, the hate emotion becomes stronger in him/her.

But if a person feels loved and wanted, hate disappears and love becomes the dominant emotion.

"When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Answer 8

They are equally strong. I read a book once where someone described it well. He was with a woman who really hated another man and was saying she just couldn't stand the strength of her hatred, which was a strong as she had originally felt when she loved him. The man she was talking to pointed to a stranger and asked, "Do you love him?" And she said no, of course. Then he asked "Do you hate him?" and she said no again and he said "Hate and love are opposite sides of the same coin, but someday you will see him (the man she hated) and he will be like that stranger to you. You will neither love nor hate him. You won't feel anything.

To me the stronger feeling is to not feel anything.

Answer 9

Hate is stronger but love lasts longer. Sometimes love and hate change places in relationships. But hate is usually temporary, and love overrides it because humans cherish love more than hate.

Answer 10

Hate is stronger, and more destructive. To love is more difficult, and often more rewarding.