Do you hate anyone you don't know?

+1.

OTOH, many people have done somthing(s) that I hate(d), but I do try to separate the action from the person.

Tom Cruise, but he is the one that started it.

Many, many people who do annoying things on public transit.

Also, my prime minister.

Sean Hannity.

I will give him SUCH a thumping.

Hate is probably strong, but I can be quick to judge. I recently saw a guy loudly berate his ~10 year old son at a restaurant because he didn’t eat all his food. I had strong feelings for that guy.

I don’t really hate any people I don’t know. Even on the SDMB, I don’t really “know” people here, and I don’t hate anyone here either.

But I’m pretty sure that I’m “hated” a lot here by various people.

So I am not the hater, but the one being hated.

AU, don’t take this the wrong way, but I seriously doubt if anyone even gives you a second thought, let alone enough consideration to “hate” you. That’s just how the internet works for all of us. We’re just not that important. :stuck_out_tongue:

Funny, I think he’s awesome, but I loved him as Ryan O’Reilly on Oz and thought, in light of that character, that casting him as mayhem was apropos.
As far as hate, no. There’s a few people I like to fun hate on, particularly when it comes to sports. Sure, some of them I still don’t like, but I wouldn’t show them any less courtesy than a stranger. Really, I don’t even think it’s possible to really have feelings that strong about someone I don’t know unless it were somekind of blanket hatred against a whole class of people, which I just don’t do.

But I have had the misfortune of knowing people that I think most others would say that I should hate because they’ve done horrible things to me or loved ones, but I just don’t. With the effort it takes to hate someone, I could just apply that energy to healing, and moving on. In each case that comes to mind, while I certainly don’t agree with their actions, I at least have some understanding of why they did the things they did, so I just see their humanity. I certainly don’t want those people in my life, but I don’t hate them. If anything, I think emotions that strong because of people hurt just goes to show that a person hasn’t done the work to heal and move on.

This might be different if I had been exposed to someone I see, at least at the level I’ve been exposed to them, as evil, but short of having that greater exposure to them, at which point I might know enough about them and be affected enough by them to justifiably feel that way, it just doesn’t make sense.

I don’t hate anyone that I can think of, though there’s loads of people I can’t stand to be around for any length of time. There are traits that I hate in people though - cruelty being chief among them.

No. Ignoring is a much better expenditure of time and effort for everyone involved.

Stealth brag? Who are you, exactly?:dubious:

IOW, cite?

I suppose that if I were to meet Andrew Wakefield I’d be tempted to punch him in the mouth. Does that count?

David Spade. I’ll be glad when he dies.

It’s called E-N-V-Y and it’s a bitch. Get used to it, young buck. Greatness carries a heavy burden…:frowning:

Yeah, I hate this internet website poster that goes by “Blackberry”. Just who do they think are, really? :mad:

Impossible!

Yeah, they’re just impossible to deal with. :smack:

Yes, I do, and it is rather odd, I suppose, but one day I was walking with my cute little niece through our complex when out of a door came a man and his dog. Now, this is normally a perfectly cromulent action, but it was the next thing he did that bothered me: While the dog feverishly barked, slobbered, and fought against the leash it was attached to in desire for my charge, the owner occupied himself with a lovely chat halfway through his door, paying his dog no heed.

It probably wouldn’t have attacked my niece, but the way it looked at her, and the nonchalant manner he carried himself in regards to his dog suddenly made me hate him, and I wanted him away from my family, because he was dangerous and reckless and almost got my niecey killed (at least, those were the absurd thoughts that went through my head at the time).

I know it’s silly and I shake my head at myself about it, but I was immensely relieved when he moved out last week.

The talking baby in the e-trade commercials. And the guy who does his voice.

It’s easier to hate people I don’t know. :slight_smile:
It happens at work all the time. I’ll be sifting through someone’s old code and despise the way they did something. Then I get to know them; and I more forgiving; because I found out they’re still an OK person… just not the type of programmer I am.