Is Hating All People Equally Better Than Being Selective Over Groups You Despise?

gmase

Nattering Nabob of Negativism
Hate is not a useful emotion.

Richard Nixon put it eloquently:
“Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
 

gmase

Nattering Nabob of Negativism
Hating everyone is not an evolution. If you hate 100% of people, you still hate the original x% plus an extra y%. You are getting worse actually.
 

Mr. Daystar

In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
I disagree. I think hate is a useful emotion, when used properly, but a blanket hatred of all people, or a race is not. However, if your hatred of someone fuels the rage you need to defend yourself, or a loved one. I also don't think hatred of an inanimate object, or a living thing that isn't a human is bad either. For instance, I hare beets, I also hate certain breeds of dog.
 

John_8581

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Theopolis Q. Hossenffer

I am in America, not of it.
Well I certainly don't hate all people, That said even though individuals are often wonderful my feeling about the whole Humanity thing is not as positive. In the aggravate I am not a big fan. And it is based on observation, not conjecture.
 
I don't think anyone hates everyone. Or maybe that person just hates the entire human race, then the person would also hate himself and he would hate people as a collective not as individuals but nobody just hates everyone but himself.
I disagree. I think hate is a useful emotion, when used properly
You may explain "properly".
When was hate used properly and what positive did it brought you or the rest of the world ?
 
Hating everyone is not an evolution. If you hate 100% of people, you still hate the original x% plus an extra y%. You are getting worse actually.

I have to say I used to hate everybody (except myself) but have really worked on improving myself over the years and have managed to cut my hate by around 70%.
 
I only dislike the people I have an actual factual logical reason to dislike. Yeah sure there are a lot of idiots out there so I dislike a lot of people I won't lie, but there are also decent people I have known. It's just too bad it always seems like the good people in the world I have known are also usually the ones that feel powerless to make the world a better place while all the assholes of the world are the ones that end up with power and are screwing everything up and fucking everybody else over for their own unlimited greed.
 

Mr. Daystar

In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
I don't think anyone hates everyone. Or maybe that person just hates the entire human race, then the person would also hate himself and he would hate people as a collective not as individuals but nobody just hates everyone but himself.

You may explain "properly".
When was hate used properly and what positive did it brought you or the rest of the world ?
I think you mean, would you explain? I speak for me, not the world. If I ruled the world, it would be a lot more mellow, and laid back.

When you channel it, to summon the wear with all to stand up to someone that has done something bad to you, or a loved one, and you use it, to give you the mental, and added physical strength, to overcome a superior foe. Or in other words, to get you pissed off enough to beat the shit out of your bully, so he goes the fuck away, and you don't have to let your shame fester into something more deadly....like going into school, and gunning down the people that have humiliated, and physically, and mentally harmed you in the past.
 
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I disagree. I think hate is a useful emotion, when used properly, but a blanket hatred of all people, or a race is not. However, if your hatred of someone fuels the rage you need to defend yourself, or a loved one. I also don't think hatred of an inanimate object, or a living thing that isn't a human is bad either. For instance, I hare beets, I also hate certain breeds of dog.

I understand your point as well. If someone harmed me, my wife, or someone else I cared about I'd hate their guts and possibly lie in wait to do something hateful elevating my hate to nourish and fortify my hatred. If that person was in the 30% I now concentrate 100% of my hatred on we may be going for a drive out to the desert where there ain't nothing but buzzards and meth cooks.
 

gmase

Nattering Nabob of Negativism
You are changing the focal point. We all probably have a couple people we hate for a variety of real and valid reasons. The question as originally posed referred to a more general hatred.

Hating entire races, religions, and/or humanity is separate from particular individuals.
 

Mr. Daystar

In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
Well I guess that's me then. because the worst thing that ever happened to mother earth, was killing off the dinosaurs, and giving man a chance. We, he, they, you....me, we have fucked her up, and over pretty badly.

I will say though, for my part, had I known it was headed in the direction it took, I would have tried to be less imposing on her. Reuse, recycle, or at least try harder to make a difference. It would have been a tiny help, but at least I could say it wasn't my fault. I can't say that now, because I have done my share of damage.
 
When you channel it, to summon the wear with all to stand up to someone that has done something bad to you, or a loved one, and you use it, to give you the mental, and added physical strength, to overcome a superior foe. Or in other words, to get you pissed off enough to beat the shit out of your bully, so he goes the fuck away, and you don't have to let your shame fester into something more deadly....like going into school, and gunning down the people that have humiliated, and physically, and mentally harmed you in the past.
This ain't no shonen, you won't beat the crap out of someone who's stronger than you just because you're pissed off.
And, bullies don't "operate" alone so, even if you manage to beat the crap out of your bully, you're gonna have to deal with his friends soon after and the most likely is that they're gonna corner you and lash out at you 2 on 1, 3 on 1 or 4 on 1
 

Mr. Daystar

In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
That's why you catch them by surprise, and take a ball bat to a couple of knee caps first. There are ways to overcome obstacles such as you describe, something I am more then sure, I know better then you.
 
That's why you catch them by surprise, and take a ball bat to a couple of knee caps first. There are ways to overcome obstacles such as you describe, something I am more then sure, I know better then you.
I have no doubt you do know more than me when it comes to physical violence, viciousness, vengeance... Which I find kinda odd coming from someone constantly ranting against gang violence. Because thugs, not law-abiding citizens, not civilised people use physical violence viciousness and vengeance. Law abiding citizen value Justice, Law, Order.
If it quacks looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
 
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