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Why does hate have negative connotations? If someone did evil to me, and I can't fight back, what do I have besides hate?

And the app in question doesn't work.



'Hater' isn't about hate. It comes from 'player-hater', where 'player' is slang for a pimp. Many people disapprove of the lifestyles of pimps, mainly because of their use of women's bodies as an income stream, and the emotional manipulation and physical abuse it takes to keep that up.

Pimps characterized this disapproval as a hatred borne from jealousness of a that lifestyle, masking dissatisfaction with one's own square, lame lifestyle, an expression of one's own inner turmoil, cowardice, and weakness.

Assholes at all levels of society picked up on this sentiment (through cultural colonialism.) 'Hater' now means anyone who criticizes the speaker for anything.


Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.


What if I'm suffering already?


Then please spare everyone else in the thread from having to suffer you as well.


Why should I? It's unfair when I suffer and they don't.


Yes. But it's less fair for everyone else to have to deal with your lack of maturity. The world would be a better and more civil place if people would move beyond the frankly medieval concept of justice as retributive parity, and certainly the internet would as well.

It's just words in a box. Unless they're threatening you personally, or doxxing you or something, just take a deep breath, recognize when you're dealing with someone who has neither the capacity or willingness to respect you, and move on with life.


I could not move on very far from Microsoft when they were at the height of their power. Surely I could use Linux but the outside world will try constantly to infect me with something MS-proprietary.

These days they are dying and I'm so glad.


I would humbly suggest that you are far too emotionally invested in something as trivial as the business landscape of software.


I surely am. This is my life. Was my life, anyway.


On the internet, the native currency is attention. You fight back by refusing to pay them the attention they crave.


This doesn't solve the problem. They go on with doing evil to me.


When people said this genuinely, the (invalid) logic was that either:

- people who dislike you care deeply about you (enough to hate you), this proving that everyone cares deeply about you.

- people who dislike you dislike everything, so their dislike doesn't matter.

Both are obviously ridiculous, and now people mainly use the term ironically.


They don't dislike me, they just make me suffer for profit and/or amusement.

When (and if) I'm in position, I'll of course return it to them via manual karma.


Forget it and move on with your life?


so, is that to say that hate can't add to a discussion? It can certainly detract, but I wouldn't be so quick to say that there are no benefits.


I'll walk knee deep in their spit then. If they can make evil to me and get away with it - why won't they?

Hatred is like a spring - it will eventually go off. That's a mechanism of delayed defence.


Because it is negative [1], even if it sometimes might be an appropriate response.

[1] http://i.word.com/idictionary/hate




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