The Hypocrisy Of Hating The Hateful

Hatred has been demonized by so many in contemporary Western society that it is not uncommon to find people who seemingly hate the idea of hatred and who despise those who hate others.  The cognitive dissonance of anyone who fits this description should be obvious at all who spend more than a moment thinking about it.  To unilaterally hate hatred or those who hate others is hypocritical, and thus it is logically impossible for someone to have a position of high intellectual or moral standing as they embrace such inconsistency.

If someone who truly but mistakenly thinks they can demonstrate that hatred is inherently evil does not hate hatred, they are at best insincere.  However, if they hate hatred, not only have they failed to adhere to their own ideas, but they have also failed to even take their hatred to its logical conclusion if they think there is a moral difference between hating hatred and hating the people who harbor that hatred.  They either lack sincerity by trivializing that which is supposedly evil or lack the intelligence and resolve necessary to remain consistent on such a basic matter.

The person who despises hatred itself shares ideological similarities with the person who is intolerant of intolerance.  Both have disdain for something that is not inherently destructive, irrational, or immoral, but they also contradict themselves by failing to think or live in accordance with their own asinine stances.  It is particularly easy to show how contrary to reason the worldview and motivations of a person like this are, as they must tread lightly or betray their own ideas.  In either case, they stand on philosophical fire that scorched them even if they do not feel it or look down at their feet.

A fierce disposition towards stupidity and injustice cannot be rationally objected to even if those who oppose all hatred by default, no matter what it is directed towards or what the motives behind it are, are consistent.  Consistency of ideas and behavior does not make a worldview correct!  On its own, consistently living out opposition to all hatred would prove nothing more than that a particular individual did not deviate from their own espoused philosophy.  Even aside from the issue of hypocrisy in hating hatred or the hateful, hatred, because it is distinct from the desire for someone to be unjustly harmed, is never addressed by attacking malice or slander.

There is no refuge in reason for those who oppose hatred either consistently or hypocritically, therefore.  At most, one can rationally object to hatred rooted in contradictory or baseless criteria; to go beyond this is to leap from non sequitur to non sequitur.  Insincerity, stupidity, or self-aware hypocrisy lurks within someone who genuinely hates all hatred for its own sake.  The moment someone expresses hatred for those who hate others without distinguishing between different forms of and reasons for the latter's hatred, they have forsaken reason.