Also, what's with this obsession about the binary distinction between like and dislike? It shows up all the time, and it's like asking if the temperature is either freezing cold or sweltering hot, with no in-between.
I know, right, I was thinking the same thing (roughly).
"Don't like" doesn't mean "hate" or "dislike" and "don't dislike" ("don't hate") doesn't mean "love" (and, while it has been pointed out that in Japanese saying that you "like" someone, generally,
does mean you "love" them, there is still a word that
equates "love" in Japanese: suki = like, disuki ~ "big" like, ai = love. Or, at least that's what I remember from highschool and college Japanese - I didn't pass third semester Japanese in college
).
It always confuses me when someone equates "not [something]" to "anti-[something]" when there are usually more than two options. In relationships (as she mentioned) there are even different types of "love": platonic, romantic, etc.
I could say more, but, if only this once, I am avoiding a "wall of text".