Hate

[Bakiryu]

What is hate? Are we born hating or is it something we learn? And why must we hate each other anyway?

Yup. A thread to post and argue your views on hate

[packersfan]

Babies are all love...

So therefore we learn hate, we learn examples of hatred, we learn reality through others. That's how it always was and that's the way it always will be.

Why must we all hate eachother?
We are imperfect. Those that sin, we hate. We all sin, so we all hate eachother.

[kiz_paws]

"In time we hate that which we often fear" ... William Shakespeare

I agree with Shakespeare. I believe that humans distrust that which they are not familiar with, and the distrust breeds hatred or complete unacceptance.

For me, the only real thing that I hate (besides cooking) is cruelty to animals. But then that is a whole different topic, methinks.

Good idea for a thread, Baki! :)

[Granny5]

I don't understand why some people hate. There are people in the world who hate or dislike everything/everyone. It's so much easier to love someone so I really just don't understand why some people want to be unhappy, unless hating makes them feel better about themselves and thus makes them happy. It's sad.

[kiobe]

Hate is taught and learned or rejected, not unlike specific religious beliefs or learned prejudices.

[papayahed]

I don't see hate as a bad thing, It's an emotion. What is done with it is where the trouble starts.

[packersfan]

I thought this was pretty cool.-


"According to evolutionary psychologists, hate is a reaction to people whose interests consistently conflict with one's own. People whose behavior threatens one's own survival interests are to be hated, while people whose behavior enhances one's survival prospects are to be liked or even loved (as in the case of offspring and other genetic kin).[citation needed]

The passions of hate arise from several features of our thinking process. These include a desire to strengthen our community and to alleviate our fear. The ability to quickly separate friend from foe is essential to self-defense and safety and provides the origins of hate.[1]

However, hatred in modern life is frequently unrelated to survival or self-defense. People are capable of hating others for any particular reason, people with different political and religious views, different lifestyles, and fans of opposing sports teams, to name but a few.
Also, the feelings of hate can arise unexpectedly. If one has experienced maltreatment in the past, it is proven that one is more likely to maltreat and learn to dislike or "hate" people before they get to know the person. This is shown clearly in the pattern of people who are abused, ignored, neglected, or maltreated by their parents, and those children's tendency to become abusive or angry."

-Wikipedia
(do I have to cite it more in depth?)

[Granny5]

packersfan, I find that interesting. I do know there are people who just hate anything or everything. I believe they are just unhappy people. No matter what someone else does, they will be unhappy. I think this kind of hate stems from the inability to control or maybe just plane jealiousy. I don't know for sure but it seems like a waste of life to me. I just don't want to work hard enough to hate all the time. Seems like it'd take a lot of entergy. :lol:

[Lily Adams]

Hey, just in time for tomorrow-Hate for the Sake of Hating Day. Woo hoo, let's party! :banana: I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!! :p

[*Classic*Charm*]

I don't see hate as a bad thing, It's an emotion. What is done with it is where the trouble starts.

I agree completely. I have always had a very extreme personality- I either LOVE or HATE. It's a really difficult way to live, as it means I have always been very intense, passionate, and opinionated. I couldn't help it. It has only been in the past year that I started to focus on softening the edges of my emotions so that I am able to find some middle ground for the sake of my health.

There's nothing wrong with hate unless you react negatively to it. I felt alot of hatred but I did my best to keep it to myself, which was always difficult and sometimes impossible. Often I would act on hatred and not even recognise it. Most of the time it came out as rudeness, which resulted in alot of isolation from other people. I was always good to my friends, unless I accidently slipped up and when I hurt them, it was the worst feeling in the world. Finally, the day I realized that I had a friend who also felt alot of hatred and showed it to me and our other best friend was the day I knew I needed to change.

Hatred is a normal emotion: everyone feels it at some point. The problem comes up when it is a regular, daily emotion, or it cannot be controlled because it can be detrimental to so many aspects of a person's life.

[Taliesin]

You know, about a week ago we set out to hate some of our friends on purpose for an evening - you see, there are darker sides in each friendship, dislikes, bores, disagreements and so on and if you let all this build up inside you, it can ruin a friendship.
So we spent that evening telling them how We hated, despised, loathed, were disgusted and so on by them. We were friends on the next day and it didn't spoil the evening neither since you can also have good time with your enemies.
We found that experience oddly calming.

[Pensive]

...since you can also have good time with your enemies.

Yes, insulting enemies is fun. Cutting, biting, chewing and crushing them like the incisors, canines, pre-molars and molars do with the food to be digested is more fun above anything else!

(I think I have had too much of Biology in the past few days!)

[kilted exile]

Hate is perfectly healthy. There are plenty of things I hate, mainly because of the way they affect the things I love.

[Bakiryu]

Usually what we describe as hate isn't really hate, just exaggerated dislike. :P

[Granny5]

There's a big difference in playing a game about hating and really, in your heart hating. I believe true hate is like a illiness that grows and will eat your heart away if it can.