The idea that 'hate breeds hate'
is a superficial meaningless slogan that covers up much more than it expresses.
Hate comes not from hate but from love. We love something and want to be with
it or near it, and we hate what keeps us from it. We love something, and we
want others to love it as well; we hate when they deny it. We love something
and fear for its safety, and we hate what threatens it.
An emotion as strong as hate, in
my opinion, could only come from a stronger emotion: love. This may only make
sense to me because I refuse to believe that we are so perverse that we hate
with more intensity than we can love, or that we hate in order to love. But who
dares to say that we can hate more than we love and that we hate for the sake
of hate or that we hate in order to love? I guess those that see humanity as a
vile at its core and a despicable thing, or those that choose to see only the
negative in those that hate, would disagree.
And if they hate people or hate
people that hate, what do I propose that they love? What love is the origin of
that hate? They love the abstract ideal of what people are supposed to be and
not what they actually are. They love an abstract ideal that can never be
realized, and they hate what falls short of their ideal or shows that it is
unrealistic.
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