What is the most destructive emotion to have?

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Fear? It leads to all the other destructive ones. I'm not sure you can have hate without fear.

SW-User

One could argue it leads to the beneficial ones as well. Romance can come about from a fear of missed opportunity. Perseverance can come from a fear of failure. Love and care can come from a fear of loss. I mean fear is our most primal of emotions. It's possible that it motivates everything.

AmbivalentFriability · 26-30

That's an interesting way of looking at it. It's easy to look at fear as only a negative emotion.