hate is good?

Question

many people have said to me that I am too soft etc
that I should get angry now and then
well I do
many things anger me .... I hate hate
there is an advertisement in the Uk with a catchy little song
the advertisement is a car ad for a greener earth ...
the slogan is
‘Hate something, change something’
here is the link to this catchy little ad
http://www.carpages.co.uk/honda/honda_asks_can_hate_be_good_02_10_04.asp?switched=on&echo=1020499282
so my question is
can hate be good ?

lol even when i try to write about anger and hate i still sound fluffy dont i ?

Answer 1

Hate isn't good.
It can never be good.

Anger isn't hate.
Anger is born out of frustration. Hate is vicious loathing.

Its good to get anger off your chest, but not to hate. If you sit and think about it, and if you friends were to, they'd realise there are very few things in life worthy of hate, and very few things they do hate. But they say hate nonetheless.

The car ad is a prime example.
The new engine wasn't born out of hate for the old, it was born out of a want to do better.

If people were to recognise this trait, and they do more things for the want to do better, rather than the hate to do bad, we'd all be happier and have less to be angry about.

Answer 2

Hate is only bad when it is directed towards another person or group of people.
It does us good to hate as well as it does us good to like.
These advertisements are meant to be thought provoking anyway and make us ask questions.
Did you know that the most successful advertisements from the past have been the ones we all love to hate.
So the answer to your question is, certainly as far as the advertisers are concerned is that it is good to hate as long as your hate is directed at the right thing.
All the best,
BEANS.

Answer 3

If appropriately directed. In general, anger is a bad idea; I decided when I was a teenager that I would not get angry, and have generally succeeded in this -- to my considerable benefit: I have been able to work out of various sticky situations where getting angry would have made things worse. As for hate, reserve it for things, and for people of such unremittingly bad social value that there is no reasonable hope of redemption (e.g., Osama bin Laden).

Answer 4

No. I don't think hate is good Pangel.

Anger at injustice, unfairness, bigotry, well in some circumstances if it generates action, spurs you on to do something, that could be good. But only if what you do is from love. If you act from hate, I think you're lost.

As vinslave says Pangel, you're doing just fine. Continue to follow your inner nature and forget other people's advice. They aren't you, are they. So how can they know what you should do?
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Answer 5

Hate is such a strong word and the term is used very loosely to describe a strong feeling. The word "dislike" is much more appropriate at times. I don't hate anyone or anything but I dislike a lot of things and this normal. So hate is not a good thing but having a strong emotion is.

Answer 6

I think you'd have to hate the behaviour of a man like Stalin or Genghiz Khan, to take extremely destructive people as examples.

I don't think there is anything wrong with hating bad ideas, as far as you don't hurt people, and its not right to try to control people by devious or threatening means to get them to agree; I don't see anything wrong with a good bit of corrective comment though, when merited. I'm probably not as tender with people's emotions as I perhaps should be, in the sense that I say it like I see it.

Answer 7

No way.... it is the confusion of love, it is mud on a clear lense. If you want to make a positive change, maybe hate will give you some kind of strength to do it... but maybe it'll confuse you, lead you to make a negative change? Still, hate is rarely present alone, nothing is pure... but the less of it you have in you, the better... surely... surely... if I want to make a change, I want it to be because I understand it is positive... what can I say?

Answer 8

Phooey. Pangel, you have a healthy sense of boundaries, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Hate and anger are unhealthy on so many levels and are usually based on the individual's own deluded perceptions and projections... what's more logical behavior is to "understand something, see it correctly and change what you can", but that's just a Buddhist perspective. You're doing just fine.

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Answer 9

i'm struggleing with this one myself. i just don't know. most people that know me would say that i'm a good person, always willing to help others, but it is almost always at my own expence. it's a question of using the power within for good things, but my question has been; is the acquisition of inner power a good thing or a bad thing since the growth in personal power has come from conquering fears instead of neutralizing them?

anger can be used as fuel, but it must be carefully used to create, rather than destroy

Answer 10

Since I separated from my ex-wife, I have experienced many true feelings. HATE, jealousy, Love, depression, loneliness & bitterness. It's all human feelings, the closure finally comes at forgiveness (It's taken me over 2 years, but all the emotions last for what feels like an eternity)