He did it first!

That's frustratingly sensical (and cyclical), Mike. Try again.

No, wait, I think I missed the point. Surely Mik e communicating in fully realized and seemily logical sentences is just as much an assault to our sense-bound universe as would be Nitsuh (fr'instance) shouting garbled Dada-isms?

Wouldn't a rejection of the 'vicious cycle of reprisal' firstly entail a rejection of the notion of this thing 'hate', or of hate as the opposite of love? I feel I know what love is, but whatever I've felt can never live up to 'hate'. I don't know what hate is. Some say that the opposite of love is indifference, but I think indifference is orthogonal to love. This thing 'hate' just seems to be dustbin into which we chuck all sorts of feelings we don't want to confront - fear, discomfort, irritation, hormone fluctuations. Does hate really exist? Does love have an opposite? Can it be negated, is it subject to arithmetic, or is it something that is present to the extent that you're aware of it?

I don't get how "love-hate" or "do-don't" are supposed to be ways around the sequential nature of language. Aren't they just very short sequences? Surely you'd need to invent a new word which simultaneously means love/have or do/don't (nb this is not v.relevant to rest of discussion)