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Let's skip witty repartee & position taking, & discuss enduring fundamental questions. (& my books: http://ageofem.com , http://elephantinthebrain.com )

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    Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson Oct 18

    There's a market for the book: In Defense of Hate; there are interesting things to say, and much interest in the topic. Hate exists for reasons, many of them good. But few dare write it anytime soon. And oddly, the best person to write it is someone who feels hate little/rarely.

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      2. Eli Schiff‏Verified account @eli_schiff Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        This book has already been written multiple times, and recently too.

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      3. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson Oct 18
        Replying to @eli_schiff

        It would help if you gave cites.

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      4. Eli Schiff‏Verified account @eli_schiff Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        Here's a recent one by C.B. Robertson literally called "In Defense of Hatred."https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Hatred-C-B-Robertson/dp/1520526016 …

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      5. DSAMariaButina‏ @CuomoDsa Oct 18
        Replying to @eli_schiff @robinhanson

        It's pretty good. The upshot is rather Clintonian - if someone seeks to destroy what you love, how else you gonna feel about them?

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      2. MARTIN ERLIĆ  🌿 🇭🇷‏ @SeloSlav Oct 19
        Replying to @robinhanson

        Perhaps what we really need is to read a book about friendship 😊https://www.amazon.com/Lindy-Effect-Friendship-Paul-Skallas/dp/1726736202/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539936367&sr=1-1&keywords=paul+skallas …

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      3. Robin Hanson‏Verified account @robinhanson Oct 19
        Replying to @SeloSlav

        What we need and what there's a market for are two different things, alas.

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      4. An Aging Scientist‏ @ddhewitt68 Oct 19
        Replying to @robinhanson @SeloSlav

        Therein lies the paradox. We need it but it does not exist because their is no market for it. Business models do not coincide with delivery of objective value but of perceived value.

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      5. MARTIN ERLIĆ  🌿 🇭🇷‏ @SeloSlav Oct 19
        Replying to @ddhewitt68 @robinhanson

        It would say it's more accurate to call that "hyperbolic value".

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      2. Derek‏ @PereGrimmer Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        There was a recent popular encomium to negative emotions in general. I think it touched on hate---I recall an interesting result that lawyers and other professionals perform better if they are pissed off---but it hardly exhausted the subject. https://goo.gl/o8ava2 

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      3. Derek‏ @PereGrimmer Oct 18
        Replying to @PereGrimmer @robinhanson

        (In the same vein, Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion has a section on hatred -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AK9IXIM/ ; as you know, Robert H. Frank also treats hate's utility from an economic & game theory perspective. -- Still, I agree, the book you propose would fly off the shelves.)

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      4. ablaut reduplication‏ @restrictedquant Oct 18
        Replying to @PereGrimmer @robinhanson

        Tooby and Cosmides have a pretty good theory of anger, I think (recalibrational theory of anger).

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      1. joseph gl‏ @usufructionist Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        I found this essay “Hate is the New Sex” enlightening. It compares our norms around hate to Victorian norms around sex. In both cases, you see an attempt to suppress and deny a natural human activityhttps://www.ecosophia.net/hate-new-sex/ 

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      2. Robert Mariani‏ @robert_mariani Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        I think it's a problem that our moral vocabulary has been impoverished to the point where "hate" is the only way to characterize something as impermissible

        1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      3. Gall Anonim‏ @GallAnon1m Oct 18
        Replying to @robert_mariani @robinhanson

        It's even worse, because the same thing was done to "love". "Love" now is the same as tolerance, as acceptance, as the default goodthink. If you do not "love" then you "hate" and what do we do to people who *hate*...

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      1. Concerned Meme Academic‏ @niftierideology Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        It's OK, you can write it—we promise not to tell

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      1. Lucas Costanza‏ @EnjoytheDecline Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        "Love your friends, hate your enemies" is a principle often followed but seldom endorsed

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      1. Paul Hundred‏ @paul_hundred Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        Alex Cockburn relayed to us the Goode question: “Is your hate pure?”https://www.counterpunch.org/2010/10/01/obama-s-dud-svengali/ …

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      2. Weiße Rose‏ @7heAbolitionist Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        Walter block already gave anyone a leg up to write it The Case for Discriminationhttps://mises.org/library/case-discrimination …

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      1. St. Cheveré‏ @FishMcready Oct 18
        Replying to @robinhanson

        Ha, I've been wondering who was going to mention it. In Britain at least, it seems a human emotion is now illegal.

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