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@Erimitus Said

bool?????

@Eaglebauer Said

Chaski meant to write "book" but wrote "bool" and I was taking the opportunity to exploit his error for the sake of humor. Because kicking someone when he's down can be a fruitful endeavor for humor's sake.

@Erimitus Said

bool?????

@Eaglebauer Said

Chaski meant to write "book" but wrote "bool" and I was taking the opportunity to exploit his error for the sake of humor. Because kicking someone when he's down can be a fruitful endeavor for humor's sake.

@glrecom Said

People hate each other because they don't have the same things.

@chaski Said

Perhaps I was referring to a Boolean variable (one whose value is either true or false)... without even knowing it was what I was referring to.

@chaski Said

People hate each other because they choose ignorance, separation, greed over knowledge, patience & understanding.

@Eaglebauer Said

I don't know that I'm ready to agree that hatred is always a choice.

@chaski Said

Example: We have a physical reaction to the sound of a rattlesnake's rattle... that is a "safety mechanism". But we choose to hate or not hate the snake.

@chaski Said

It does seem like some hate is built into "our" DNA... still, I believe that we have choice in the matter.... though it can take considerable effort sometimes.

Reflecting on this idea, hatred as a choice or not, I think fear and self defense (and some other like adjectives & adverbs) are built into ourselves by millennia upon millennia of evolution, but "hate" is actually a learned behavior.... nature has given us reactions built upon survival, nurture takes those actions to the level of "hate"...

Example: We have a physical reaction to the sound of a rattlesnake's rattle... that is a "safety mechanism". But we choose to hate or not hate the snake. Also, we have a "natural" fear of other unknown people. That is a sort of territorial protection response (think a lion pride fearing the approaching new male lions). But we humans choose to take that to the level of "hating" those unknown people as our evil enemy (and sometimes rightfully so).

Of course I could be wrong... many would stop agreeing with me at the word "evolution".

@Eaglebauer Said

Chaski meant to write "book" but wrote "bool" and I was taking the opportunity to exploit his error for the sake of humor. Because kicking someone when he's down can be a fruitful endeavor for humor's sake.

@Eaglebauer Said

Learned behavior, yes, but is learned behavior necessarily voluntary?

@chaski Said

Interesting.

@Erimitus Said

it is probably best not hate.


once learned it is automatic.

It is difficult to unlearn something.

I could see people hating someone who has more than they could possibly use while others starve in the street. maybe not.

I cannot think of anyone I hate.

I hate peas
and I am glad I hate peas
because if I liked peas I would eat them
and I hate peas.

Hate has not been defined yet.

I suppose if someone was giving me a hot lead enama I might dislike them fairly intensly.

@chaski Said

I don't think I hate anything.

I find coconut, especially shredded coconut on anything, to be disgusting... but I don't hate it and kind of wished I liked it... I've tried numerous times in my life... still find it disgusting.

I don't even hate Trump... don't like him enough to call it hate... its more like a combination of disdain and disgust... but not actually hate.

I expect that if I lived during WW 2, I would have hated the Nazis, but maybe not... hating someone gives them a degree of power.

A story: Once a Tibetan monk who had been imprisoned by the Chinese was released after many years of very poor treatment. When this monk met with the Dali Lama, the Dali Lama asked him what was the worst thing he has suffered while in captivity. The monk replied, "I feared that I would lose my compassion for the Chinese."

I don't think I am as "good" a man as the monk in this story. I just don't have the energy for hate.