Hate
- For other uses, see Hate (disambiguation).
- "Hatred" redirects here. For the 1975 Soviet film, see Hatred (film).
Hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon, generally attributed to a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy the hated object.
Hatred can be based on fear of an object, or past negative consequences of dealing with that object. Hatred is often described as the opposite of love or friendship; others, such as Elie Wiesel, consider the opposite of love to be indifference. People may feel conflicting and complicated emotions or thoughts involving hate, such as love-hate relationship.
Often the verb "to hate"is used casually to describe things one merely dislikes, such as a particular style of architecture, a certain climate, one's job, some particular food, or people who claim to hate something when they in fact merely dislike it.
"Hatred" is also used to describe feelings of prejudice, bigotry or condemnation (see shunning) against a person, or a group of people, such as racism, and intense religious or political prejudice. The term hate crime is used to designate crimes committed out of hatred in this sense.
Hatred is often a precursor to violence. A populace is sometimes trained via political propaganda to hate some nation, faith, or political regime. Hatred is a major motive behind armed conflicts such as war and terrorism [citation needed]. Some believe that hatred does not exist, and is merely a tragic misinterpretation brought on by misunderstanding.
The passions of hate arise from several features of our thinking process. These include wanting to assign blame to others for our misfortune, protecting our self-esteem, a desire to strengthen our community, alleviating our fears (by destroying the evil others), and several types of errors in reasoning, including cognitive bias. The ability to quickly separate friend from foe is essential to self-defense and safety and provides the origins of hate [1].
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Notes
- ^ Emotional Competency Discussion of Hate
References
- Hatred: The Psychological Descent into Violence by Willard Gaylin
- Why We Hate by Jack Levin
- The Psychology of Good and Evil : Why Children, Adults, and Groups Help and Harm Others by Ervin Staub
- Prisoners of Hate : The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence by Aaron T. Beck
- Becoming Evil : How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing by James Waller
External links
- A site that talks about Racism and its partner, hate crimes
- Survivor bashing - bias motivated hate crimes
- Hate Blog - publish rants online
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