Are you capable of hating?

[Alley Cat]

By nature, yes I am. By practice, no. Even when someone pisses me off.. it doesn't take much to calm me down. This one kid who wanted to fight me, he tried everything he could to make me mad and hate him, so that I would fight him... but it didn't work. Even the kid I did fight.. I don't even hate him. I punched him, and any bitter sentiment I had just went out the window. I only went in again because... I don't even know why. But I'm already not a fighter, and I especially can't fight without a reason to.

But also.. hate is rather pointless. If I don't like someone, then instead of hating them(and thus thinking about them, otherwise what would you be hating?) I just forget about them. Hate is love's cousin after all.

 

[femtrooper]

Hate is a strong word...I would say that I dislike many things, and hate a few. Hate is strong, but yes, I do hate some things. I am very capable of hating. Do I hate sexist and racist people? Of course. So yes, do I hate when it's cold outside...yes, but true hatred is towards horrible people.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

I can hate, and I do hate, but it takes something major for me to get that far... right now there are only about four people I really hate... and three of them are connected to the same cyberbullying incident that occured on another forum a few years ago. Those people literally almost drove me to do something from which there was no turning back, and for them to almost ruin my life, I think I'm justified in hating them for life.

If we're talking about Pokemon characters, though, there are plenty that I hate. Ash, Pikachu, Red, Youngster Joey... I have no problem with hating them.

 

[Signomi]

Of course, but when I hate someone, it's only for a very short amount of time. I'm too forgetful and I don't see the point in hating people most of the time. It takes too much energy that I can be using on other things~~~

^ this pretty much sums it for me.

I'm the sort of person who can only despise actions that other people have done, whether to myself or to anybody else. But I can't say I can really hate a person, it's just not in my nature to do that and as I've said in the related thread - hate is an incredibly strong word and I'd be concerned about anybody who would literally say they can actually hate an individual. Don't see the point of taking so much of your own energy and narrowing it down to sheer hate on a person or persons.

I would most rather use that energy for something more constructive, helpful and in a way that would promote kindness amongst the rest of us.

 

[Dawn]

Hahaha... of course! Everyone is physically capable of hating. It takes a lot for me personally to hate someone though. Someone has to do something bad enough, which in itself is pretty hard, and then I basically have to have reasons to suspect that the situation will not improve.

I've hated very few people, and the few that I have were very, very sick in the head. They had no diagnosis or anything, but at the point where they started making me question my faith in humanity it became pretty clear to me that rather than them being an example of how humans are evil, they were simply extremely disturbed individuals.

The tipping line for me was that they did not believe they were disturbed, and had no intention of getting help, and would expect me to simply tolerate them. That to me is unfortunately not acceptable.

 

[chella182]

I can hate, but I generally don't. It's a pretty big expenditure of energy, and I'd rather just say I wouldn't help someone if they were about to fall off a cliff.

Pretty much this. I don't waste that kind of energy on people I don't like. I have more important things to expend my energy on.

I don't really even dislike anyone currently apart from this one girl online (not here), but that's not really real 'cause it's online, 'cause even that's too much of an effort for me at the moment. I just focus on the good people in my life i.e. the people I like and are worth spending time and energy on keeping around.