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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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[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.

[voice]

[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.