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Would it not appear that hate and animosity are stronger emotions than love?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) October 5th, 2016

Some say love is the strongest emotion, but those who have been friends for many years, then decide to have a romantic relationship, when that relationship fails, it appears the hate and animosity towards the one they professed to love is so succinct that they can no longer even be friends, and in some cases the grudge last so long inflicting or wishing bad on the other is as palpable as fog in a winter morning. That would appear that hate as an emotion is more potent than love, because once established, love hardly ever returns, even on a friendly basis. If love was that strong, would it not return at some point, to smooth out old angers, grudges and hurts?

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Just like it is much easier to destroy than it is to create, it is much easier to do damage through hatred than to uplift through love. It takes no effort to hate someone, but loving is hard to do and requires sacrifice.

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jazzjeppe's avatar

I find your thoughts really interesting and something I need to think of. So thank you for sharing!

Perhaps love is still something small and little that we subject to a smaller number of people or things while hate is bigger and affects more people?

Why?
Really interesting question…

Let me get back to you when I’ve done some thinking :)

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