What are the advantages to hatred? Are there any good reasons to hate?

Question

As a species, why does our nature keep this negative feature?

Answer 1

Having dealt with alot of "anger Issues" throughout my life,alot of self inflicted theatrical drama,played out on the stage of my life where tickets are free and good seats are plentiful,I have come to the realization that "hate" only hurts the person feeling the "hate".
I think learning to have tolerance towards others and understand what it is to feel "hate" is a big piece of the pie of "why" we are here.
Until we can understand what it is like to truly feel "hate',and in turn see that it is "we" who suffer from feeling this hate,it is "we" who are stuck in this none growth cycle of turmoil,it is "we" that feel every stabbing,piercing emotion that we had hoped to emotionally inflict on another.It is only "we" who suffer the wrath of the 'hate"
Its one of "our lessons" to be discovered by each one of us when the time is right,so we can "see" it for what it actually is,and chose to grow and move on,by forgiving those we feel hatered towards..

Answer 2

Hatred is an emotion that alerts us to pain. Love is an emotion that alerts us to happiness. Pain is inevitable in life thus we cannot love pain (at least not sensibly) thus we need to hate it, in order to reduce it, stop it, or make it change it's course to somewhere more just and fitting. We hate things because it causes us pain, whether physically, mentally or spiritually. That pain is an emotion thus hate does make us acknowledge pain and sadness but it hopes to eliminate it. Evil only occurs when we know how to eliminate it, but we choose not to in order to hate more because of power etc. Once we hate, we must try to eliminate the source so that we feel no more pain and can love again. This World has a lot of problems and needs to solve many things before it can love and stop hating. This forum does a lot to stop hate. It is a good way to spread love. Good question.

Answer 3

Because it validates our feelings. By hating someone we feel we are in the right on the situation. It's a way to lick our wounds, so to speak. To justify retaliation against someone.

Do I feel that these are good reasons to hate? No, but from when I have experienced this emotion, these are the justifications I have given.

As a Christ-follower, I'm trying to eliminate hatred in my life. All of these validations are against what we, as Christians are taught. Why do Christians hate? Because we are humans and focus on our needs, and our desires, instead of living our lives the way that Christ wants us to live.

Answer 4

I guess it's easier for some individuals to show hatred than to show kindness. To be kind they would have to work at being kind. Maybe some individuals lack the abilities to communicate with others when they want to be left alone....so to get their point across they strike out...retaliate & hurt the other individual...when all they had to say was 'give me some space'. Our species will continue doing what they have been doing since the caveman days....that's all they know....that's all they want to do. Besides.....it's easier to hate that individual then it is to give that other person a friendly hand shake or just a smile.

Answer 5

There are none. In fact it is an indicator that the person doing the hating is very insecure. Hatred does more damage to the person nursing those negative feeling than it does the object of their hate. It can lead to heart problems, high blood pressure, cancer, strokes and a plethora of other maladies to the self, not to mention ones own psyche!

Answer 6

Most people do not understand emoitons as being a way you are communicated from broader perspective.
The easiest way your guides can communicate with you is through your emotions. When you feel great joy and are in appreciation, you are on the same page as your higer self. If you are lonely or depressed that is pretty much on the bottom of the scale. It feels terrible because of the seperation between you and your guides.
The problem is when you are down on the bottom of the emotional range you cannot leap up to joy so we have all these emotions inbetween to help us bridge the gap.Hate while pretty much on the bottom on the scale, is highter up than dispair and more empowering, as is blame and revenge. So if someone is in dispair it is the most natural thing in the world to get to anger and hate as that feels better than hopelessness. However people tend to like us better in dispair as we are less of a problem than a angry person, so most people go from dispair to anger and back to dispair, in a sort of rut.They get stuck in hate, dispair, hate dispair then revenge. What needs to happen after hate is to find blame, which feels a bit better still, than frustration, then hope than knowing, then believeing,and appreciation, and way up there is joy and love. What are emotions tell all of us is where we are in relationship to where we really want to be, which is happy. So if you are feeling mostly the in the range of hope than it would be backwards to go to a hateful thought, but if you are feeling powerless, the most natural thing to do is to get to hate. the trick is not to stay there. But this is the best way to climb out of any depression. So hate can be useful tool , you just cant stay there too long.
In the movie What the Bleep do we Know, Doctors talk about every emotion creating a peptide in our bodies, that we get addicted to like cocain. You can actually get addicted to shyness or hate, or anger or feelings of worthlessness. The peptides for these emotions are very toxic to the body. Might as well drink battery acid. So the trick is to break the addiction, but appreciate the emotion of hate for what it can help you do, and as the indicator of where you are, and then reach up for a slightly better thought, and then a slightly better one untill you climb out of the hole. While anyone can get addicted to anger and stress it is just as easy to get addicted to love and joy and appreciation.

Answer 7

I think that hate is something we allow ourselves so that we can lay the blame somewhere else.It`s like a protective shield we use to hide the pain and refocus on something else to keep us going.In the end however it becomes like an addiction that destroys who we really are.In letting go of hatred it`s like letting yourself out of prison.I don`t think there are any good reasons to hate,it`s a sword that cut`s both ways.

Answer 8

There are no advantages of hate. All hate does is breed more hate and contempt. Hating someone doesn't even necessarily hurt the person you hate. Usually the individual doing the hating is the one who gets hurt the most by it. And usually the person doing the hating ends up hating them self.

Answer 9

Hatred is a tool if you can control it.....the key is not letting it control you.

Some of these answers have been 'christian' based....oh yeah? Well look in your bible. God has hate. He loves His children, but hates sin. If the goal of christianity is to become closer to God, then why would you want to completly eliminate an emotion that even He has?

I don't belive all church goers are hypocrites...but that stereotype is kept alive by individuals that pick and choose their doctorine...if you don't like whats written then make up your own religion!

Hate is fear???? That one is silly, too. I hate flies buzzing around my food, but I'm certainly not fearful of them.

How come something as common as hate, something WE ALL have inside of us, can create such silly answeres????

Hate is as common (and important) as any other emotion including love.

Not to sound redundant, but the key is to control your hate and not let it control you (the same could probably be said for all emotions)

Answer 10

Hating someone is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to get sick. No good can ever come from it.

I believe we humans hold hatred in our hearts because of our sinful nature. The most physically healthy emotion ithat we can have is gratefulness; the most unhealthy emotion is hatred and revenge.

Answer 11

hatred is a useful feature in competitive primates. There are stories of death feuds between rival chimpanzee's. Its use lies in conquest of resources and thus leads to improved chances for your offspring to have better resources. In modern society its now a hindrance.

as far as keeping this negative feature its found in the amygdala, thalamus, and upper midbrain which are part of the more primitive brain thus eliminating it will take much time and evolution.