Where do people find the energy to hate other people?

Question

In particular i am talking about hate between races, conservatives and liberals, religious groups, sports fans, etc. Hmm perhaps we're all victims of circumstance, but maybe we need more understanding about each others point of views. I don't mean to sound self righteous or anything, it's just a question i've pondered about. Please answer sincerely i would like to hear your opinion.

Answer 1

I think roots of hating others are coded either in education through family, school, media, etc. (social factor) or in a type of personality (education + genetics and other determinants of health).

It is maintained socially because brings often profit for people who incite hatred: political votes, profit from gun selling, profit from illegal labour force (including displaced people), which is needed as cheap, slave labour for bigger profts or is absolutely necessary for flourishing of all kinds of criminal activities (which also are extremely profitable in many cases). So amoral pragmatism plays a very important role. Racism is an unfair, but very effective way to eliminate an entire group of the society from a play and diminish any competition for racists in all spheres of human life, e.g. professional, personal, in always limited resources for social and health care, etc.

I personally do not know what is hate, maybe because of the fact that nobody lead me to this stage of rage. Or maybe I forgot this feeling growing to an adult, who has more options to select environment.

Also I think that mechanism of development of hatred include reactions of both sides and racist tend to indicate that not their bad response was the first, that other people provoked their "normal" reactions.

Some rare personalities are strongly disgusting for me - other feeling related with understanding that source of something bad is not an accidental mistake, but "systemic" thing in case of such a person, that gives an impression of wading in a bad mucilage; some people look like having a pathologic perversion on emotional level (e.g. satisfaction from causing a shock, disruption between friends), I think because of jealousy and other shortages during development of personality. I knew one such person, quite educated, but strongly racist. People from a poor ethnic minority, towards whom this person was racist, had a term of "not pure" person and I had feeling that such description was aptest towards the essence of this person. It is most dissapointing when such persons, as more educated, get power over projects on minorities, because they are good targets (as socially weaker) for abuse from the part of "professional". All resistance from the minority may be taken by outsiders as resistance to good intentions, in a low tolerant society.

and also some people cause vexation, when e.g. they know they are doing really not fair things for others, but accept that as source of living, as routine of their system for pragmatic reasons; that is however not so deep feeling as the hate or disgust and one may accept fighting with them as a good play, because every your small victory is an entire rock for the whole closely connected pathologic system or "normal" mentality. Many institutional racists are in this category: even if they understand that their procedures are racist, they proceed further without any effort to change things.

Some cause vexation because they used to do things in one way traditionally, but, if they are normal personalities, they learn constantly and exchange of views (even with negative emotions) always give good results. But it explains also why inability to learn throughout the life (access to quality eduction) is so related with racism.

Answer 2

People always have more energy for hate. Most people are more than willing to divert energy from other areas of their lives to hate. Hate helps keep people going, it gives their life meaning. Some people look at the world and they see commerce and breathing, they don't really see anything special going on, they don't see what is important about life, and they need some struggle, some ideal that gives their life importance. People like this create a righteous cause, an ideal for themselves to live with, by finding someone who they can consider evil to fight. In the mind of a person with hate, they are fighting something evil, something that needs to be irradicated for life to be good. They create a struggle that gives their life meaning.

This is precisely why hate is so powerful and prevelent, it becomes a person's reason to live.

Answer 3

I think it comes from something left over from stone age mankind. It is easier to hate what you do not understand than to try to understand it. Understanding takes effort and time. Unfortunately, it seems more and more people do not want to make that effort. What a shame!! Just imagine how much more fun the world would be if everyone actually enjoyed the differences in each of us.

Answer 4

You got me, hate only eats up the person doing the hating.

Answer 5

Oh, it is here inside me. If it runs out, eat more carbs. And caffeine

Answer 6

Ther evil side

Answer 7

In the sense that their opinion is always right.

Answer 8

Its not hate, so much as contempt, and that's usually for their hypocrisy or idiocy.

Answer 9

i think it comes from the need to feel right or better than...