In order to hate, one must first love. Do you believe in it?

In english class, I was thinking about this idea.


The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference, and the absence of caring.





If one dies, and you do not care, it is indifference.


If one dies, and you care, whether it is remorse or relief, it is love or hate.
In order to hate, one must first love. Do you believe in it?
i just hate obama
In order to hate, one must first love. Do you believe in it?
kinda guess so, can you please help me with my question now, please thnx
Reply:ask anyone married or divorced.
Reply:hmm..well i think in order to love u must hate. if u cant handle someone when u hate them then u dont deserve to love them. yes hate is the absence of caring.
Reply:maybe... maybe NOT
Reply:dear friend only if there is love there can be hatred............but not always
Reply:no, not really, that doesn%26#039;t make sense...
Reply:nope.
Reply:Or perhaps it is that one must first love in order to hate.
Reply:I think you need to be open minded before you decide on somethings. Actually, the opposite of love is use.
Reply:Yeah I believe that in a way....You have to know a person to hate a person !!
Reply:I don%26#039;t have time for this one....too complicated. I think you either like a person or you don%26#039;t. Whatever.
Reply:I don%26#039;t believe it. I never loved sneezing
Reply:Not necessarily. You can have feelings of hate or bitterness toward someone you previously didn%26#039;t even know because they caused you to lose a loved one...say a drunk driver or other criminal who killed someone you love, or the other woman who broke up a marriage.





I guess there is still love involved, but not exactly in the linear way you explained it.
Reply:I loved my daughter with a passion second to none. She has destroyed an immense part of my heart and did so willfully and with malice. First I hated her. For a long time, I hated her. But you are correct. The hatred has mellowed into indifference and the lack of caring. I know this may sound cruel to many but they do not know my adult daughter.
Reply:Love and hate are different, but what the saying basically means is that you don%26#039;t know the real meaning of hate until you have loved. To put it into better terms, if people were to know people better, then they wouldn%26#039;t hate each other that easily. So if you start to hate someone, but you 2 start to talk and get to know each other, you most likely won%26#039;t hate them any more, or if you do, just not as much.
Reply:I don%26#039;t agree with it. It could very well be reversed which would make one or the other not so...like saying you can%26#039;t love until knowing hate. Its an emotion. You don%26#039;t have to know contentment to know frustration or anger. You can know hate for having never loved. It%26#039;s complicated I guess, but it is determined more by a person%26#039;s surroundings and environment more than based on emotions they may or may not have experienced. It would make a good saying for some things though.
Reply:I do not believe it. Try pondering this: If you must love to hate, imagine, a kid you just met, he killed your family, you hate him right? You couldn%26#039;t have had time to love him, but you do hate him
Reply:First off lawl to that hate lol


Second if you never love then how do you know if you hate being you dont have anything to compare it to? granted they are polar oppsite and their is some middle ground but people need to know the strongest feelings to really understand what love or hate really are. To me love is careing about the well being to a very high point and hate is careing that something is not being well so to me both are forms of careing.
Reply:no not always the case, but it is sometimes
Reply:I agree that the opposite of love is apathy/indifference.


I think it is also possible to hate others for behaviours that you find loathsome. You can hate them for a wrong caused to others, or imagined offenses. It is not necessary to love first in order to hate.


I believe that love and hate are both passions and one can follow the other but it is not the only situation where you can find hate.


Good observations by the way. You have the makings of a philosopher.
Reply:There is this co-worker I despised, disliked, hated, whatever, since the moment I stood three feet from it.


It (the person) just gives off this vibe that makes me shudder.


Its like an empty sink hole. I rather cut my arm off then sit down with it, for more than five minutes.


I don%26#039;t want to have anything to do with it. I never get bad vibes from people before I even to talk to them, but this it, well, its like my anti-me, I can just feel it.
Reply:hmm...


maybe.


but then again, how can we know what love is or feels like if you never hated?





haha...idk man. people can write a whole book on this topic.
Reply:I believe that in order to care if one has died, one must first have felt love or hate towards that person. Literally, one must feel love first before hate, because a baby shall always feel love for their mother before hate for any other reason.
Reply:If you didn%26#039;t ACKNOWLEDGE, their presence in the first place and treat their passing. The same way, doesn%26#039;t that poke holes in your theory ? ? ?
Reply:Well, a child%26#039;s first response to the world, after being inside a warm womb, then being SQUEEZED out the birth canal into a cold, metallic, stinging world, might possibly be hate.





Then the child feels the warm sensations of mother and father%26#039;s touch and they satisfy his pangs of hunger with breast milk---so the next emotion he learns is love.





So to answer your question from the natural world----I would have to say love and hate are opposites.





My personal opinion would be caring and indifference or opposites.





If you see a homeless person on the street, you will either care, and try to offer some sort of help, or feel indifference, by walking away or stepping over him.





If someone loses a loved one they feel intense feelings of grief, pain, unbearable loss, but they still love.





If you are at a funeral and you don%26#039;t care about the person that died, you might feel indifference. You would have to have very strong feelings of hate in order for you to derive pleasure from this person%26#039;s loss of life.





Just my opinion.
Reply:to know love lost, one must first love. in order to hate you must first have a thought that you want to hate, remember hate is a emotion, hate means something different to everyone, as everyone emotions are different.


%26quot;If one dies, and you care, whether it is remorse or relief, it is love or hate.%26quot; if one dies, and you care that would be sadness, a sense of loss, maybe hurt or even mad. but not remorse, that%26#039;s like you feel bad for something you did. sure you could feel relief if a loved one dies, if they were in pain and the end of there life was difficult we never like to see are loved ones suffer. but to answer the question, no you do not need to love to hate.
Reply:No.





Hate is not the opposite of love. It is an entirely separate and distinct emotion.





It is possible to have a love/hate relationship with someone, or be completely ambivalent, meaning you neither love or hate.