Re: Zach's exposition on hate, cruelty, malice.

[bradhodson]

I'm going to do something a bit different in this entry. I'm going to reply to Zach's entry on March 19th concerning the power of hatred, cruelty, and malice

Comments

[sallys_shadow]

Wow, Brad. Everything that you wrote made sense to me, and it is the same way I feel. You made some very good examples - like the intern that spills coffee. I agree with your friend that said she would rather be consumed with love than hate because it's hard to understand who wouldn't rather be happy than living a sad life.

Awesome. :)

[sovietwrench]

I want to clarify the idea of hatred becoming righteousness. I didn't mean true righteousness. The righteousness that I was describing was the kind of false righteousness that I think we can all fall victim to. For example, consider the civil war in Iraq. The Sunni and Shi'ite malitias are bombing and murdering each other back to the stone age. If you were to ask a member of either malitia why they hate the other, they would cite the exact same reason: that the other has done infinitely more horrible things their people and that they are doing the world justice by fighting them. The makeshift righteousness that each side of this conflict has created is what is perpetuating the conflict. The violence is more terrible because each side believes that theirs is the side of righteousness

[sallys_shadow]

Did you mean to leave this as a comment to me?

[sovietwrench]

No, for Brad. I guess I just hit whatever reply button I saw.