Darkened Abyss wrote:
A lot of people say that hate is the opposite of love, but i don't really think that's true. Hate and love are on the same side of the coin. Their opposite is indifference. A complete lack of emotion. Whenever i've seen anything that i've thought could be even akin to a real hate, not just an extreme dislike, it's almost always seemed to stem from a love that's gone sour.
A lot of people say that they're the same thing. I guess this is the portion where we can actually debate on something, or at least discuss two opposing opinions.
First off, hate is an intense emotion.
These are many ways of defining an emotion. I want to focus on this specific definition:
[quote]emotion, term commonly and loosely used to denote individual, subjective feelings which dictate moods. In psychology, <b><u>emotion is considered a response to stimuli that involves characteristic physiological changes—such as increase in pulse rate, rise in body temperature, greater or less activity of certain glands, change in rate of breathing—and tends in itself to motivate the individual toward further activity</b></u>. Early psychological studies of emotion tried to determine whether a certain emotion arose before the action, simultaneously with it, or as a response to automatic physiological processes. In the 1960s, the Schachter-Singer theory pointed out that cognitive processes, not just physiological reactions, played a significant role in determining emotions. Robert Plutchik developed (1980) a theory showing eight primary human emotions: joy, acceptance, fear, submission, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation, and argued that all human emotions can be derived from these. Psychologists Sylvan Tomkins (1963) and Paul Ekman (1982) have contended that “basicâ€