The Myth Of Hating A Person's Traits Without Hating The Person

Hatred is so controversial that even though it should not take most people longer than a few seconds to understand, whether they happened to think of it as they reflect on the nature of reality, experience themselves and analyze their feelings, or hear someone else bring it up, Christians and non-Christians with beliefs and behaviors that objectively oppress other people will still usually insist that there is something evil about hatred.  Even people I have talked to who have made comments in favor of sexism, racism, prison rape, anti-rationalism, and other such idiotic or hypocritical stances nonetheless tend to treat hatred in general as if it is always unjustified, malicious, monstrous, and impossible to experience or express without evil.  Most of them will even have to contradict other parts of their worldview to believe that hatred is automatically, universally vile.

Some of these people claim to be Christians and ignore the obvious fact that the Bible is only opposed to hatred with certain motives or mishandling hatred by behaving unjustly, meaning they must contradict the Bible they are supposedly deriving their universal opposition to hatred from.  Some of these people are moral relativists who simultaneously believe that nothing is truly right or wrong in a moral sense and that hatred is evil, rendering their worldview impossible of being true all at once.  Some of these people are openly willing to enforce stereotypes that hurt men, women, and people of all skin colors or support unbiblical forms of torture, yet they think that hatred itself is evil, as if doing these things without hatred is not asinine and hating people who believe such things are not the real problem here.

Conservatives, liberals, theists, and atheists alike, among others, will at least often agree on the wholly unproven and unprovable idea that hatred is some kind of inherently immoral thing.  Of course, all they have at the heart of all of their irrational objections is an arbitrary personal and cultural discomfort with the thought of hating someone else or someone else hating them; there is absolutely nothing about hatred that makes a person selfish, abusive, hypocritical, or irrational.  Moreover, just because they might not be able to currently handle hatred without acting on it in a way that truly is selfish, abusive, or so on does not mean everyone else has their same weakness.  For some, perhaps a belief to the contrary is why they oppose hatred: they think that if they struggle with rationally and justly handling hatred, so too does everyone else.

Besides the invalid basis of emotionalism, there is nothing that would drive a person to think that all hatred is by default evil or destructive as opposed to just subjectively uncomfortable.  Not all hatred has the same motives or results in the same actions, beliefs, or attitudes, yet every manifestation of it is likely to be treated otherwise.  When even people who are opposed to hating any person hate the irrational or otherwise sinful traits that define a given person but fret over not hating the person himself or herself, they must pretend as if those traits are somehow distinct from the person that they constitute a part of.  To hate part of a person without in part hating the person is impossible!  An irrational person's idiocy and an unjust person's injustice are parts of them that only a fool thinks do not reflect on their true nature.  To hate someone is to hate at least some of their traits, and to hate some of their traits is to hate them to some extent at a minimum.

There is no such thing as stupidity or evil apart from beings with irrational beliefs and wicked intentions or behaviors.  To think that there could possibly be a reason to hate the former without hating what they spring from is so obviously idiotic that if it was not for the intense personal dislike (hatred, ironically!) so many people have for hatred in general and the emotionalistic cultural attitudes against it, it would be easy for more people to see that hatred itself is not intrinsically problematic, overpowering, or cruel.  To be sure, there is no Biblical obligation to hate every irrational or unjust person in the same way that there is a universal Biblical obligation to love people by treating them justly.  No one is sinning if they do not personally despise people instead of the fallacies, assumptions, hypocrisies, and philosophical apathy that all errors and injustices reduce down to.  Anyone who thinks that all hatred is the same or that all hatred is evil, though, cannot do so without assumptions or contradictions, meaning they are irrational.

Logic, people.  It is very fucking helpful.