fear vs love

so the only thing i really paid attention to in political science today was the niccolo machiavelli quote "it is better to be feared than loved"

well, me being a person that's all about affection, i was reluctant to agree. but then i thought about it.. and i believe it is true.

to be feared is alot more powerful than being loved. that means you are solely in control because it is innate for them to be scared or fearful. you do not have to interact with the person, for them to fear you.

to be loved means that you NEED that other person to give you that attention. so the control is solely by the counterpart, and not yours because they CHOOSE to love you. you cannot make someone love you. however, you can make someone fear you.


so i do agree with that statement.
does that mean i want people to be afraid of me? hmm. well not in the sense that i want to brutally kill them... but in the sense that i am overly intimidating. haha.

im totally intimidated by a lot of people, so......................

yeah.

think of it this way, no matter how much you love someone... in one point of time or another... it greatly impacts you BUT, i think its much easier to remember a time where you were scared shitless for your life--rather than a relationship. hmmmm.. but now that i think of it, with my relationships i was always fearful of the other person. for whatever reasons. sooo, i think fear is everywhere, but love is not. i dont know what the hell i'm saying anymore


i'm going to shut up now.


the end.