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[SargeMaximus]

Of course I can, especially when the desired outcome is the same.

It's like saying "will a shoe or a steak knife cut through this material better?" They may be different things, but the result you're considering them for is the same. It's no different with emotional states.

The desired outcome could be the same. But that doesn't mean that they are not different things, like the knife and the shoe. And thus they'd work in different ways (assuming that they work ), like the knife would cut a steak in a different way than the shoe. You're not gonna get the same clean cut with a shoe...

That's exactly my point.

Calm and collected = shoe.

Also, hatred is not the strong absence of love, but the strong presence of hatred.

I'd classify these 2 statements as the same exact. It's called the law of polarity. If you believe in that kinda stuff, or interested, I'd say google it. It's pretty interesting to me at least.

I might check it out.

But I'm sure you agree that hatred can emerge from (or even because of) love in many cases.

Not trying to jump in where I'm not welcome with an opinion, but this is an interesting debate. I think love and hate are different sides of the same coin.

The opposite of love isn't hate in my opinion, it's indifference. True indifference aimed towards someone is probably the cruelest action one human being can show to another.

And in the few instances in my life when I have showed indifference to a woman, I had emotionally destroyed them. Not proud of it, but I have seen the aftermath of my actions. It wasn't pretty.

Interesting. I know I'm already pretty indifferent, and most of my successes come from "darker" emotional states (i.e. The DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE :o lol) but I've not seen much in the way of "aftermath".

Can you elaborate on that?