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[selfgodded]

[Oh look it's the guy who threw that New Years' Party. What insanity are they bringing this time...?]

Things are exciting here. More and more exciting. There is even a tournament! I have never participated in one before - it is a friendly contest thing, yes? I cannot wait to see how everyone performs. The aim is to win, so everyone will be fighting to the best of their ability, to beyond their very limits, otherwise the win is tainted, yes?

Yes.

You will all try very hard.

[Er, did their voice get a bit weird then? A bit deeper? Hm, oh, no, their voice is back to normal]

I hope so in any case. It will make this dull otherwise.

There is a question to be asked.

Hatred and Love is viewed in equal measure. Humans normally say love is worth more. In recent months, I have seen media that espouses that love will always succeed over hatred. Hatred is inferior. It sustains only the self, but it is like poison also. Pure intentions become twisted, revenge distorts the mind and morals, and eventually hatred destroys the individual...

I must admit, this confuses me. I have observed no such things in humanity before. Ah, the corruption, yes, but hatred has sustained and protected humans as much as it has poisoned them. It is usually love that brings about self-destruction, as they hold another's life higher than their own.

So, I have always viewed hatred and love being of equal measure. They are different, yet powerful in their own right. It is like that saying, what, pears and lemons? Apples and peaches? Whatever.

So my question is thus: what do you think is more powerful or more important? Hatred or Love?

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[Video]

[universebeware]

[...well, that voice change was horribly unsettling.]

Neither of them are all that important to me.

[Video]

[selfgodded]

You are not human, so your opinion on the matter is not relevant.

[Anant's head tilts]

Humans are social animals; social animals that breed by mating, and love assists in that. Building bonds, securing permanent mates... do metal beings like you even require bonds like that? I doubt you reproduce in a similar fashion to humans.

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[greatergone]

Neither. Emotions get in the way of performing at one's peak.

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[selfgodded]

Emotions assist performance at one's peak. They give strength. They give the ability to march forth when another would die long before. Do not underestimate emotions.

However, they do bring their own weakness. Which is the reason for my question. Are hatred and love on equal standing, or is one worth more than the other?

To live without any of them gives birth to a dull life of grey.

[video]

[andcarryabigknife]

Logic should be the dictating force.

[video]

[selfgodded]

Humans are not logical creatures, despite their attempts. Emotions influence judgement, subtly or obviously.

This is what I enjoy about them though.

And isn't deciding things through just logic a bit...boring?

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[untiemyhands]

Suok never wanted me to spill blood for him, so I don't see why I'd start now!

_{[Have the disembodied voice of a terribly contrary young girl, Anant.]}

The spite sticks in the veins and makes them stiffen. Tenderness puts cuts in the heart. Really, isn't the question 'what kills the man faster?'

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[selfgodded]

Yes, that is an alternative way of asking my question. What kills a man faster? What destroys them quicker? What forces a human to crawl forwards until their soul is stripped into little pieces?

Hatred festers, but love is like a star. It burns bright and hot until there is not even ash left of the one who feels it.

So. What is your answer to the question; what kills the man faster?

[demifemme]

Both are equally powerful. They both give power to change the world.

[selfgodded]

So you agree with me that they carry equal value and equal power. You are the first thus far.

[forceofnature]

They boil down to the same thing! You might as well ask what's more important, a goddess of light or a goddess of darkness! The answer's a goddess of nature, by the way

It's passion. Of all the species we made, humans are the only ones with the capacity for either, and so only humans mess up so catastrophically! Just as much tragedy has come out of love as hatred. It's passion without understanding or comprehension or wisdom or even the ability to not be a total nitwit.

[selfgodded]

Yes! Yes yes yes!

[WHOA FRIGGIN' ONE EIGHTY IN MOOD AND WHOA WHAT'S UP WITH THEIR VOICE]

You understand! Passion of course gives birth to both hatred and love, so how can one be worth more than the other when it is born of the same thing?! I do not understand why one would place such values...

Humanity holds love higher than hatred, even though hatred is born from love and passion! Such as love is born from passion and hatred!

You always understand me~

[Video]

[primordial]

[Well now, this is interesting. Just seeing Anant's reactions to this topic is something quite intriguing indeed, so Sam takes a while to reply to this, thinking of how to answer the question.]

Neither. They're both as powerful as each other, it just differs from person to person and how they decide to use them.

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[selfgodded]

Yes, yes! I agree!

[Pause. Cough.]

I agree. Hatred and Love are born from the same source, so to say that one is stronger than the other makes little sense. It depends upon the individual how damaging those emotions are.

[misery_hates_company]

They're both pointlessly foolish. One has you throw your life away for someone you care about, the other has you throwing it away for someone you despise. I'd rather not deal with either.

Incidentally, that was an... interesting vocal shift you took there. You wouldn't happen to be trying to INFLUENCE people, would you?

[selfgodded]

Influence? Why would I influence others when I require their opinion? That does not make sense.

[Anant's voice sounded thoroughly controlled right now]

It seems you are of the majority... many say that do not want to deal with either. Is it common for people to deny their emotions in such a way? I do not understand why they would willingly separate themselves from them...

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[hetried]

[Well...the last time he had spoken to Anant was only over text, but it was pretty obvious by the way he talked that this was the same guy.]

Uh...you mean apples and oranges?

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[selfgodded]

Apples and oranges. Yes. That sounds correct.

We spoke before haven't we? Daichi Shijima?

[video]

[fools_journey]

Ah... I've heard it said that love and hatred are two sides of the same coin. Both are emotions of great passion that can drive people to go to great lengths...

[ Minato pauses to sniff and to clear his throat; he's still recovering a bit from his weekend illness, you see. ]

... but I think that which is achieved with love is more important and greater in the long run than that which is achieved with hatred.

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[selfgodded]

You understand that hatred and love is born from the same source, yet believe love carries more importance? Love brings about as much destruction and violence as hatred, yes?

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[selfgodded]

i do not understand.

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why are there numbers in your words. has your comp been broken.

i do not understand.

:(((((

help. please.

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[complexdisorder]

Love. Hate will drive you to destroy others, to gain revenge.

But only love will convince someone to sacrifice him or herself.

[audio]

[selfgodded]

But by that, love and hate equally represent death. Love makes humans defy their self-preservation instincts. To say that one is better than the other, when it all ends in death, merely in different ways, hmm... it is strange.

[nyxterious]

I can agree, that they're both very powerful emotions. Ones that can change the world.

... when it comes down to it, though, I think love is the stronger one. Love of the world, love of your friends, of your family... it's the force that guides many to do what they do. Hatred does the same, yes, but... love seems to leave the strongest impact.

At least, to me.

[selfgodded]

So you agree with the media's portrayal of them?

But love is always accompanied by hate, just as hate is accompanied by love. To say you purely love one thing - is that but a lie? If you love something, you will hate to see that thing hurt. If you hate something, you will love to see that thing hurt. So how can one be stronger than the other...?

It truly is confusing me.

[voice]

[whereibelong]

Love.

With hatred, you want to destroy or hurt. And that just leads to more bad feeling and more anger and everything. It just... doesn't seem to really go anywhere.

[She's... having trouble putting this into words, especially since she's had so much more experience with one aspect of this than the other.]

With love... Love is caring, wanting to do good. It's when you want someone to be happy, and in the end... doing something out of love can go a long way. Maybe it does lead to self-destruction, but love can sometimes mean that - destroying yourself for so many people you love and care about, helping them and protecting them, even if it doesn't do any good for you at all.

Hatred doesn't do anything like that. It doesn't care.

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[selfgodded]

But that does not mean love is superior to hatred.

Let me put forth an example, as multiple people have misunderstood me. My apologies for not being clear! To use your example, if you protect someone out of love, it is because you hate to see them hurt, yes? So you are feeling both love and hatred in equal measure. The more you love someone, the more you hate to see them upset or hurt.

So wouldn't that mean that you protect them out of hatred, that hatred is the strongest emotion?

Allow me to put forth another example.

You hate someone so much that you love to see them writhe in agony. You wish to see them suffer. You love to see their agony. So you hurt them. So wouldn't that mean that you destroy them out of love, that love is the strongest emotion?

To say that one purely does this and that, when in fact those two emotions are deeply intwined, born from passion, from the same source... I do not understand.

You need both!

Ah-! My apologies. I have rambled. But I hope I have explained myself sufficiently.

[voice]

[dreamprotector]

I don't think it's as easy to say one is superior to the other; both are a powerful drive in their own right. There is a balance to things like that.

But in the end I think love is what should be striven for in life. Without caring for others there is no way to discover the truly important things.

[voice]

[selfgodded]

And what important things are those? Love and Hatred help to forge one's path to their dreams, which I always presumed to hold topmost priority in importance.

If your dream can be accomplished by Hate, then why bother with Love? Of course this is under the presumption that they are two different emotions, when in fact that are almost one singular emotion.