It's much like relationships between people. You love a person. Then when things go sour, you may hate that person. Eventually, you just become indifferent.
Love, then Hate, then Indifference.
Love, hate, and fear contrast with indifference in that they are all modes of concern with regard to some object. Indifference is simply a lack of concern.
so, the first 3 you have an emotional response and with indifference their is a total lack of emotion and therefor opposite..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q93Zu8e27Yg
as the woman says in the above video even if you nhate me you still feel something for me and i still have a chance...indifference is when you have no feeling at all for someone..
Wow, you could not have proven my point any more perfectly. All things seek a balance. You love something, then you hate it, over time you become indifferent, because you are gravitating back towards the middle. This seems very difficult for you and Peter to understand, even though you continually prove the point.
To Peter: We are arguing the age old axiom, because in your statement you specifically state that the age old axiom is not true when you state "the opposite of love is not hate" you are refuting what is self evident (Although, let's face it, it's not actually an axiom because it is indeed a fact) No matter how much arguing you do, you can't escape the given definition of the two words in question, love and hate. They are opposites no matter how much philosophizing you do.
No offense to the video above, but as already stated the woman is an idiot, given two different people she would actually have a better chance with someone that was indifferent than someone that hated her, because they would be more receptive to change, given the one that hated her has more intense emotions against even beginning to have a working relationship with her.
This next example may be difficult for you, but when you go out to a bar or club or other establishment in order to attract someone, they start out indifferent to you. The people you will be approaching do not care about you, they do not know about you. Yet you still stand a decent chance of convincing them that they should want to know more about you and should no longer be indifferent toward you. However assuming the same situation you were to encounter someone you hated at the bar, you would have literally 0 chance of convincing them to do anything nice toward your being. This probably still isn't sinking in, but oh well.
Strangely you guys keep debating a single small aspect of the words love and hate in order to contrast them with indifference, yet at the same time you assert that hate is not the opposite of love. Truly mind boggling.
There are very few things that get to me and you surely do not make that cut.. sorry.
