I reckon that both hate and apathy are opposite to love, but in different ways. Hate is the opposite of love in that the feelings described by the word are negative rather than positive, but a relatively similar amount of passion are evident in both hate and love. Apathy, on the other hand, could be considered to be the absence of any passion, thus making it the opposite of both love and hate.
If you think about it long enough, you end up with a triangular system like this:
And so each of love, hate and apathy has two opposites. You might call this a "trichotomic system" perhaps, as opposed to the more familiar love/hate dichotomy...?Thoughts?
Can anyone think of any other trichotomic systems?
my dear friend you are spending far too much time thinking. But it's interesting. Apathy is definately worse than hate.
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true, to all statements. You're coming to a certain massive party, I hope?
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