A retraction
Yesterday I counseled hatred for Jared Lee Loughner, and I have to retract that- I dislike and don’t do hatred. At least, I work very hard to try to avoid it.
See, if I had a houseful of cats, or a barnload of chickens, and there was a coyote and a fox, I’d shoot them both in a new york minute. But I wouldn’t hate them- in fact, I love dogs, and would be sad to have to destroy them- but the good of my chickens comes before the predator.
I’m not going to counsel hatred; instead, I’d like for this guy to be taken down like a mad dog, like a predator in a target rich environment. To hate someone- anyone, I think- is wrong. Better to dispassionately eliminate the threat from our society and thus be shut of the whole menace.
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Hmmm… good point.
I still hate what he did. That won’t change.
Oh! No question.
Rabid dog. No better description needed or further reason required for putting him down.
Because hate is not the opposite of love, disinterest is. I’ll dispassionately eliminate those preying on me or mine.
Hate gets too close to, or makes it easy to move toward, evil.
What’s that line from Poirot, I think “Do not allow evil into your heart; it will make a home there.”
The ones I put down I did not hate.
They were on the wrong side of the rice paddy.
Mind you, there are a number of people out there I flat despise, but that’s a far different thing than hate.
Oh, I still have all the misanthropy imaginable- but it’s about the disgust I feel for the individuals, not the race. And weeding out the morons should be a civic duty, but it’s not.
“Weeding out Morons”; now that would make for an interesting business card!
If you need hate to generate the gumption to get you on the right track and get the job done, use hate. Pure unadulterated hate is seldom controlled, though, as uncontrolled emotion seldom solves problems or achieves goals.
Can hate even BE targeted? Ask the fascists, they did and continue to do a bang-up job with it.