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Please do not question or challenge my logic in this particular post.
It is simply the ramblings of an empty mind, and nothing more.

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The human species is capable of a wide array of emotions, ranging from love to hate.
In my opinion, Love and Hate do not actually count as emotions--rather, they are combinations of emotions.
Thus, this array of emotions is very much like the spectrum of colour--and the human soul is like the sun or lightsource, creating rays which bounce off of variables in life and react differently.
Love would be white, and Hate would be black. Supposedly, white is every single light ray when jumbled together--thus, all the colours.
Black is supposedly the absense of colour, a void.
I think, with emotions it should be applied differently.
Love and Hate are both every single emotion bound together--and I personally believe you cannot hate someone without caring about them in some extent.
Let me explain.
Were you to truly hate someone, you might go so far as to kill them with full disregard to the consequences--thus, in this respect, you would go to jail for them, and be relatively happy with this.
Would you not also go to jail for someone you love?
That is a simplified explanation.
These days, the words "Love" and "Hate" are thrown around so easily, when they do not actually apply.
But that is, for the most part, another subject.

To differentiate between Love and Hate, as they are by skeleton meaning in my definition the same, one must think on the different mixtures felt towards others.
In Love, there is anger--but there is also passion, compassion, sympathy, care...Frustration, the list goes on. To put it simply, the 'good' emotions--positive ones--outweigh the 'bad' ones.
In hate, it is simply the same process, reversed.

On this theory, then, one can assume that there is no Black and White--straying from the previous analogy, of course.
There are many different "Loves" and "Hates", each with their own respective strength and endurance.
Some may be fleeting, others may be long lasting.
The one thing that differentiates these two omni-emotions from simply affection or dislike would be their voracity versus other experiences and reactions.

For instance.
If you loved somebody, whether this was an imediate emotion or one that grew with time, you would be willing to accept their faults or compromise for their needs, or even forgive them for an extreme offence.
This isn't to say that if you love someone, you will never be upset with them, or that you will never stop loving them.
It simply means that it takes alot more.
In affection, if there is something about the person that bothers you, if the affection does not eventually evolve into love--then that little fault will end up driving you away from the person, no matter how insevere it is.

This is similiar for hate--while someone may rub you the wrong way, or something they do may incite irritation on your behalf, it is not something that you will neccesarily begrudge them unless you are simply that kind of person.
Unless you truly hate someone, it is likely you will forgive them the small things, or simply will remain impassive.

Thus, it is impossible to Love someone, and Hate them at the same time--rather, it is more likely that you Love someone, and dislike them from time to time, or are slowly losing that Love for them--or that you Hate someone, and empathize or sympathize with them from time to time, or with people close to them.

Alas, my wandering mind has been spent, and that is all I have to say on the matter.
Comment with your opinions if you wish.

-Yukiko G.