You can’t be big and small to something at the same time the way you can love and hate something at the same time. Your point about 0 is resonable, but it’s mo

You can’t be big and small to something at the same time the way you can love and hate something at the same time. Your point about 0 is resonable, but it’s more of a U shape. Both are intense feelings that will stimulate arousal. In practice, it’s easier to move from love to hate and back to love than it is to move either to apathy — and cycling between them doesn’t involve apathy at all. And then we have things like disgust, which I would say is more dissimilar to love than hate.