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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?

Comments

[Video]

[universebeware]

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

Neither of them are all that important to me.

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[greatergone]

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

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[andcarryabigknife]

Logic should be the dictating force.

voice only.

[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?'

[demifemme]

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

[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.

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[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.

[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?

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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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[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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[complexdisorder]

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

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

[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.

[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]

[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.