Love and Hate

We remain confused with concept of love and hate. Sometimes it appears that we love an idea or an object and sometimes the same love stands transmuted into hate.First of all, everyone loves one's own self more than anybody else. Even personal hate is a reflection of love for one's own self. Next step is - when it is said that "I love so and so", then it logically means that "I do not love others or love less than so and so".In our daily activities, when we profit physically, financially or emotionally, we say it is love; when we lose, we call it hate. If one gives a tip to a taxi driver in the US, he replies to the customer that "I love you" - this is the level that love has been reduced to. Love is barter for exalted ego and hate is traded for low self-esteem.
Most people know that money is not the root of all evil . Instead, the correct quotation from the New Testament is: "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." But wait, before the invention of money there was only the mechanism of barter for acquiring stuff. One person had lots of goats, the other was a carpenter, and they traded goods for services - and vice versa - by exchanging, say, a couple of animals for a new dining table.So, could 1 Timothy 6:10 have been written then as: "for the love of barter is a root of all kinds of evil" ? Sounds absurd. Because what kind of human interaction or relationship are we talking about here when someone hoards thousands of goats for the heck of it or someone else makes hundreds of chairs with no takers?Obviously, not even the corrected "love" of money (which is just another form of barter) can really be the root of all evil. But if Paul the Apostle didn't have a material concept in mind or even anything money-like at all, then what we're left with is the remainder of his statement: Love is the root of all kinds of evil.