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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 10 years ago

Agree or disagree: "The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference"?

I agree with that Elie Wiesel statement

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    I loved that speech given by Wiesel. I wrote a paper on it a couple semesters ago (to compare to the turmoil in Darfur)

    Even hatred elicits a response. You fight it, you denounce it, you disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. -haha, I still have bits and pieces memorized

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Agree

  • JoN
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Tranquility.

    Not everything has an opposite or a negative, only in opinion. For example what's the opposite of talking? Not talking? That's not an opposite, that's a neutral.

    And what's the opposite of a circle? Some will suggest a square, some a triangle, and some a straight line. So what's the opposite of a straight line? A zig zag, a squiggle, or anything that isn't a straight line. It's inconclusive.

    The only logical opposite of love would have to be hate. indifference is the middle ground. Neutral.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Yes, I agree...one must not hate, and we never really do.

    Elie Wiesel has many wonderful quotes. I agree with them all.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Hmm I don't know if either of them are actually opposites but I guess indifference does make it hard for someone to love.

  • 10 years ago

    I can respectfully agree. But there is a lot of hate going around in the world.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I thought Love and Hate is a couple.

    Dancing like a moving swings,

    Keep passing each other, never meeting.

    But I agree anyway.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    I agree somewhat...though my choice of word is "apathy".

    Wiesel is one of my favorite authors; I always consider whatever he has to say.

  • 10 years ago

    Agree,

    Hate is on a totally different plain of feelings.

  • George
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    Disagree.

    The opposite of love is manic anxiety.

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