At 08:30 PM 3/10/98 +0800, you wrote:

Being the most powerful moving force in the universe, I doubt that greatly.
Man, by nature is not a hateful being.  Its just that people decide,
unknowing or not, to ignore that love, or transfer that to their children
instead.

This strikes me as a ludicrously rose-tinted view of things.  Emotions are
a result of sentience.  Humans, being the only (confirmed) sentient beings
on the planet, are innately capable of the entire span of emotions.  People
feel love, guilt, desire, joy, hate, etc. through experience, not just what
is taught to them.  Racism is very much a hereditary thing, yes... but
people do fall out of love.  It's happened to me, it's happened to friends
of mine, it's happened to my mother.  And that breed of hatred is stronger
than most any other, because it's laced with betrayal.

Hatred is very closely linked to love.  Both are very passionate emotions,
but hatred is more destructive because it consumes.  When in love, you give
a lot of yourself, your emotions, what makes you who you are, to the other
person.  But when hating someone, you do the same thing... a very cool .sig
I once saw contained the line, "Rivals love more intensely than lovers do.
If you do not fight, then you will never know."  And it's true.

And I suppose lead can be turned to gold?  Romeo and Juliet proved that
already.  Death is the only thing that'll stop "True Love" cold.

This doesn't really answer the question.  The issue is whether or not what
Ranma and Akane have really *is* "True Love," assuming such a thing exists.
And it doesn't.  Relationships don't just magically function.  There IS no
"happily ever after."  Even the most blissful couple has some knock-down,
drag-out fights.  Given a more realistic and less romantic approach to the
entire situation, the two of them have a LOT of issues to work out with
each other.  No matter how much they may love each other, if they never
learn to communicate their emotions in a kind way (rather than an abusive
one, no matter how jovial), then the relationship can not work.

-Deuce