These both cloud our thinking and judgment. They’ve sparked confrontations, violence, wars, and some of the greatest epics of all time. Both make our heart rate increase, our pupils dilate, and our palms moist.
OK. So it seems like love and hate are not quite so different. Plenty of age-old sayings agree: There’s a thin line between love and hate. The opposite of love is never to hate, it is indifference. Common knowledge points to hate as a learning process, which I not only believe, but I have met a few individuals who never missed a lesson and have shown little class.
You've got to be taught, to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught, to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade
You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught
You've got to be carefully taught
Authors: Oscar Hammerstein & Richard Rogers