I've found hatred focuses the mind -- if you have a hate object, you can work obsessively towards a goal (destroying them), no matter how much pain and boredom you must endure. Not just that, but the prospect of provoking such reaction makes for friendly relations.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1052973196696281088 …
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1of2/That's a good point; it's a funny quirk, but quite sensible that those obsessed with hatred (ending it or promoting it -- and there are few in the latter group) should be hate-filled, with the natural consequences. This leads to the Q, does the hatred or hatred of hatred
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2of2/come first? (That is, do people who "hate hate" (i) begin as haters themselves but then grow to hate the tendency--or less charitably, to learn to mask it by decrying it; or, (ii) grow to hate hate due to exposure to external first-degree hatred? {Prob. some combo.})
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