>Since at least the time of Jesus, there's been this idea that love is
>about peace, harmony, and so on. This concept of love is pacifist if
>not exactly passive--Jesus urged his followers to go out, actively
>embrace your fellow men, and love.
>
>And, it's true that there has long been an idea that dichotomized love
>against hate and linked love with peace while linking hate with
>violence. But, as the great Stanley Kubrick understood, love is just a
>flipside of hate, peace just a flipside of war. Both love and peace
>are really about security or survival.