But I think hate and aggression are two different things. Hate is judging someone as being wrong, where aggression is more like actively defending your territory.
You would defend your territory from a friend, by pushing them away in a friendly way. But hate entails disliking the entire person, often because you think one aspect of them is inexcusable. If you hate someone, you don't push them away, then smile. You want them dead, or at least out of sight.
I believe this judgement of an entire being as bad because of only one portion is the kind of thinking that provokes religious conflicts.
And this type of judgement is a type of prejudice, or stereotyping.
In other words, one person might hate anyone who is black, or anyone who is gay, or anyone who is a muslim (or a christian).
My dad was a conscientious objector during world war two, and many people hated him because they believed it was necessary for their survival to kill their enemies, and he believed it was wrong to kill.
I don't think it is necessary to hate someone to defend myself if they attack me. I would hate that they had put me in the position of having to hurt them, but not necessarily hate them as a person; only their actions.
For someone to be your enemy, you have to expect them to endanger you in some way before it happens, don't you? So that would lead to the type of stereotypical thinking in wars, where you have to kill ALL of them to feel safe, (unless they surrender)or they have to kill ALL of you. (The 'having power over somebody' Wolfgang wrote about). The alternative, I think, is to peacefully wait for an attack, then defend yourself.
Wolfgang,
That quote makes a lot of sense.
What did it come from?
"While she pursues power on the outside, a growing sense of unworthiness is eating at her from the inside."
What does this mean? Does it mean hate is wrong and we feel guilty, or that this feeling of unworthiness somehow feeds the hate? Or maybe just that the quest for power is a vicious circle that leads us farther into illusion?
David,
Why would it be necessary to have a "holder of aggression?" Why not defend yourself as needed? In the animal world, prey animals try to stay away from predators, but they don't spend their lives figuring out how to get rid of ALL predators.