I’m talking about all consuming, pure Hatred. Not, “I hate that guy who just cut me off,” or the other sort of things we call “hate” but really aren’t. I’ve been thinking about it for a while now, and I have decided the answer is a resounding “no.” But I want to know what you people think.
Of course it is. Some people just deserve to be hated with every ounce(or gram, for metric dopers) of my soul, until I can exact my rightful revenge on them.
Hate, like love, fear, et al, are simple emotions. People can’t control feeling emotions. However, they can choose not to let negative emotions affect their behavior.
Hate can be useful - as a reminder, a motivator or a focusing tool. Most of the time it’s counterproductive, though, because it’s not very pleasent. The whole point of hating someone is that they suffer, not you, so why torture yourself? If I hate you, then I have a problem. You don’t.
Besides, if you’re opposed to someone, then you probably have a logical reason to do it, besides the emotional reason (and if you don’t, thenyou should get help). Letting your emotions guide your actions is amateurish.
I see no reason to hate anything that doesn’t physically hurt you or your loved ones. I hate mosquitoes, but I don’t hate any person or people.
Hate is the most destructive, all-controling and all-consuming emotion that exists. And even worse: Once you permit it to enter your mind it has already implanted the habit to never leave you again.
It is a waste of energy, time and intellect that enslaves you and brings you to thoughts and/or deeds that are unproductive, destructive and in some cases even very dangerous for yourself and others.
So I guess the answer at the OP’s question should be no.
And that is why I can’t understand why people who have English as their language use this word so unbelievable frequently… As if it represents just nothing at all.
They don’t even seem to know what they accuse someone of when they say or write “he/she hates this or that…” or even worse, since more directly: “You hate this or that”.
To me such a nonchalance in the use of such a word comes across as if they don’t know what they are actually saying.
Salaam. A
ALDE: Once more you are right, pity Old Bin Liner didn’t see it your way
spogga, that is why I locked him up in my basements the minute he came knocking on my door. He now works in my undercover caves to produce hasj. Together with someone name Hussein who brought me also some non-existing WMD’s. I also have a bunch of weird bearded men who came with OBL carrying rusty kalashnikovs. More recently I imported some Aghan heroin plants, question of keeping the bearded men calm and obedient. They are really all very good workers.
For OBL I provided the needed video equipment in order to produce and ship now and then his messages. (To Al Jazeera and other media in my region and from there to US based ones who are always ready to pay a good price).
Of course some fake productions must enter the world scene. Question of keeping the tension and keeping the CIA alert and busy.
Since I’m a capitalist who knows that you never can have enough money… Plantations need to be attended the year round. Thus the CIA is looking for a lot of people they can’t find.
Salaam. A
Hate is caused by fear. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
I sense much fear in you. The dark side of the force is powerful.
ALDE: Why didn’t you lock him up ** BEFORE ** 9/11
Hate is a terrible thing that should be avoided at all times. I don’t believe there is ever any justification for hatred. There are times when someone’s hatred of another can be understood, can be sympathized with, but even then I think it cannot truly be justified. The reason is that hate harms both the hated and the hater. It is also my belief that you can seek justice, retribution, or even revenge without having to succumb to hate.
All that said, hate like despair, or apathy is something anyone can suffer from, and we should not be quick to judge harshly those who are under its effects.
A parent may hate someone who kills their child, may fall into despair at the loss, and may become apathetic to the rest of life’s existence. Non of which is good or even OK, but all should be fully sympathized with.
I really can’t tell, when a guy has just cut me off, what the “level of intensity” of my hate is. I don’t think it works that way. Hate is hate. And yes, there are things I hate every day, and things I hate every time I see them, and that’s normal. That’s how life works.
I think that a truly mature person can sympathize with and understand that everyone is human being. Such a person would not hate anyone because he would recognize that, ultimately, everyone has the same problems, the same struggles and the same humanity.
This is essentially the same as my reply in the Political Views You Cannot Tolerate thread.
I don’t personally believe there’s any such thing as a bad or wrong emotion. I view emotions as a gauge telling me how thing are going according to my own set of values. For example if things are going well in my life then I’m probably going to be pretty happy, if someone tells me a joke I might be amused, and if someone cuts me off in traffic I might get angry. If someone hurts be very badly or is the antithesis of everything I hold near and dear then I might very well hate them.
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By those standards I feel we could offer a condemnation of any other emotion. There are plenty of people involved in bad relationships or otherwise exhibiting self-destructive behavior because love has become their all consuming emotion.
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I don’t know if English is your first language but we call that a hyperbole. That’s when we exaggerate to make a point. Nobody really hates broccoli any more then they love their new carpet.
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Not everyone has the same problems nor do we all have the same struggles. I don’t spread lies in the office about other coworkers in an effort to ingratiate myself with my superiors. I don’t torture others for political, economic, or recreational reasons. I understand that those I might hate are human beings. I don’t see how I could hate anything other then a human being. I view a person who can’t hate as being emotionally stunted just as I’d view a person who could not love.
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Bingo. There are good reasons to hate people just as there are good reasons to love them. That doesn’t excuse any of us for allowing our emotions to rule our actions though.
Marc
Obviously some who has never tried broccoli.
Hate is a very necessary emotion if it was not for hatred then my wife wouldn’t understand my feelings about broccoli and of course without love she wouldn’t understand how much I am looking forward to getting my new telescope. Naturally there are different degrees to which emotions can very for example extreme hatred=Broccoli…
hint.
Yes, broccoli is one of those things which deservest to be hated with the strongest passion possible, and I will continue to hate broccoli till it is erradicated from this planet. And other course, there are some people who are almost as vile as broccoli, which means hating them enough to want to see them completely annilated after a long period of terrible suffering acceptable.
Of course it’s ok to hate. Just like it’s ok to love. It’s ok to be depressed. It’s ok to be joyful.
I know people that have hated their position in life and used it to fuel change that was positive.
I used hate to get over the girl I loved for four years and was planning to marry.
I hate murders who kill for no reason. I see no reason to forgive or embrace them.
It’s when you hate the wrong things for the wrong reason. Or if you get consumed by hate that things aren’t ‘ok’. Just like every other emotion. It’s more insidious then say ‘joy’ and more likely to become an obsession. But you can say the same thing about love.
Hate is a normal human emotion as is love, fear, distrust etc.
To attempt to deny the existance of hate is to deny human feeling and is wrong.
Following WW2 Allied POWs released from Japanese camps weighing less than half their normal weight because of starvation/overwork/disease etc swore that they would hate the Japanese until the day they (the POWs) died.
Today some former POWs meet with their former captors and forge friendships which they would have thought unthinkable back in 1945/6.
By the same reasoning there are those who still quite understandably still harbour the same hate today as they did those years ago.
My own personal thoughts on the matter are to the effect that hate is, as I said, normal for any human being and that anyone who harms me or mine (that includes my Country) will be on the receiving end of my hatred.
Those that love me or mine and my Country will receive love in return.
Interesting, I would argue that love can be just as destructive. many things have been done in the name of love that are worse than those things done for hate. The crusades are an example of a group of people “loving” their religion just a little too much. Intense love of something often leads to “hatred” of those who oppose that you love. Love and hate are two sides of the same coin, so why are we allowed to use the word love nonchalantly but not hate?
Anyway, hate in its dictionary definition is not a bad word.
I hate the taste of mushrooms.
I hate religion.
Which sentence is worse?
Most would say the second but then again most people really don’t know how deeply I despise the taste of mushrooms. There’s stronger emotion there.
It’s just a word, I say use it nonchalantly, use it seriously.
what does it matter?