African Proverb 6

It is better to be loved than feared.

I think that means it's better for people to like you than to hate you. In other words, most people would like to be loved than hated because people don't want to be around you if your making bad choices all the time. Safe for instance, my parents love me very much and if they feared me, I wouldn't like that because I wouldn't want to be feared by my own parents, I want to be loved by them because If they I feared them, I wouldn't be able to live with them because I don't know what they could do. I love my family too much to be feared by them so that's why it is better to be loved than feared.

Also, I know there's a lot of people that their parents are feared by their own children because their child is making the wrong choices. Your parents wouldn't want to raise you if you can't respect them. Your parents wouldn't want to do for you if your disrespecting them and doing other bad things. There's plenty of people in this world that would like to be loved, and there's plenty of people that doesn't like to be loved so what I'm saying is it's better to be loved than feared because people don't want to be around a feared person.