I agree with you that the full spectrum of emotion is necessary to feel things fully.
Love and hate are not opposites, they are different reflections of strong feelings. Indifference is the opposite.
I go out of my way not to have reasons to hate, but it has happened. I can probably count on one hand the total number of times I have loved and hated fully.
The trick for me is making sure hatred fades, but love does not.
There is nothing inherently wrong with reacting to something with a strong negative emotion as long as you can keep it from impacting your own life and internal mind scape badly.
Does one need to have cancer to be able to be fully healthy?
That's about where hate ranks for me; I'm strongly in your friends camp. I don't find any redeeming value in it- there are other "negative" emotions that can be funneled into productive motivation, but the only motivations that hatred seems to bring are destructive and harmful.
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Love and hate are not opposites, they are different reflections of strong feelings. Indifference is the opposite.
I go out of my way not to have reasons to hate, but it has happened. I can probably count on one hand the total number of times I have loved and hated fully.
The trick for me is making sure hatred fades, but love does not.
There is nothing inherently wrong with reacting to something with a strong negative emotion as long as you can keep it from impacting your own life and internal mind scape badly.
As with everything it is a balance.
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That's about where hate ranks for me; I'm strongly in your friends camp. I don't find any redeeming value in it- there are other "negative" emotions that can be funneled into productive motivation, but the only motivations that hatred seems to bring are destructive and harmful.
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