What's interesting with both of these transitions is that in some sense the stronger emotion is just the weaker emotion but more so. Rage is just more anger, loathing is just more hatred. But it crosses a threshold where the response changes and this in turn changes the feeling.
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I think this distinction is quite tricky to navigate. It's tempting and easy to fan the flames of hatred and allow yourself to loathe people who are probably basically fine by focusing on their worst traits.
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But as with all emotions, repudiating the emotion in its entirety cuts you off from important and useful ways of being, and sometimes when you encounter someone or something truly loathsome, it's worth acknowledging to yourself that it is genuinely bad that they exist.
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(You probably shouldn't act on that feeling too thoroughly though. The police frown on that)
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