Does meeting hatred with hatred, make you, in some small way, the thing that you hate?

Of course. I have dealt with a lot of hatred & bigotry...when I was younger & more prone to anger, I would meet it with the same.

I eventually realized by demonizing all who resemble the ignorant I dealt with, I was no better than them...

There is hate & love, evil & good in all people. The measure of who we are is not only how we conduct ourselves, but how we meet others too.

Life is a completion.

What is it you think we hate?

We hate to lose,

hence we hate the winner,

hence we want to be the winner.

I want to BE the thing I hate in the sense that...

I want to be the winner (that someone else hates)

The less America is hated

The less it is worth being an American

The game begins

The fittest survive

Same as it ever was.

Conservatives lock & load and join the fray.

Mindful that the world contains both friend & foe.

Liberals whinge & whine & pretend there's a better way.

And in their blistering naivety imagine they are enlightened.

No particularly. If you hate the idea of hatred in any form, then I can see that you would be exhibiting the very trait that you hate. However, if you express some sort of "hate" towards a particular form of hatred, then the hatred you feel, and the hatred that you hate are different entirely.

Actually, this is confusing to phrase without overusing words. I'll just stick with an example.

The Westborough Baptist Church hates anyone that doesn't support them and their causes to the book. The blame everything on homosexuality, and accuse anyone that doesn't attend their Topeka, Kansas church of "harboring homosexuals", and basically tell them that they will burn in hell and deserve to die. They celebrate the deaths of anyone who dies in combat, of aids, or in car accidents (to name a few) pretty much saying that they deserved by, usually because they allowed homosexuals to exist and didn't attend their church.

I personally am appealed that this group of people has decided that they are the closest to God of any group on this planet. I truly hate them for what they do to families who have lost a loved one who did not get to live a full life. I hate them even more for the fact that they brainwash every child on any of their followers into believing that God hates the entire world and everyone on it (except those in the WBC), and that their only purpose in life is to tell everyone outside the church that they are terrible people who will burn in hell. I have seen videos of WBC members getting hit by cars (intentionally), and I have felt no sorrow. I have even fantasized doing it myself. When a car-bomb was detonated on their church grounds, the only thing I wish could have been different was that it could have done more damage.

I hate the WBC because they are elitists and hate anyone who isn't exactly like them. They misread an otherwise powerful religious text to mean whatever they want it to mean. They brainwash children, and allow them to grow up without the capability of coexisting with reality. They emotionally terrorize families of soldiers, children, and students simply to get attention by being as offensive as possible. I hate them because they are and extreme of a much larger group of people I truly believe the world would be a much better place without.

The WBC hates people because they feel they have interpreted the bible in the most accurate way. They believe that Homosexuality is what God hates more than anything else, and they believe that anyone who does not firmly oppose the mere existence of homosexuality is equally hated among the homosexuals. They chose to hate anyone that doesn't agree with their views. However, since they have numerous radical points of view, the demographic which they choose to hate consists of practically everyone on the planet.

The hate the WBC feels towards those who don't follow them, and my hate of the WBC are entirely different types of hate. While I am "hating hate", the hate that I feel towards the WBC does not fit the criteria for the type of hate that I feel hatred towards.

I apologize for this being a confusing answer. It is simply hard to phrase, as use of synonyms is not generally practiced when discussing philosophy. It is a very good answer, but is only true in select situations, usually when a person hates another in an attempt to overcompensate. Basically: "A hypocritical hatred of hate".

No, not at all. In fact hatred gets a bad name. Hatred is necessary.

Consider that the Nazis preached a doctrine of hate. To hate Nazism does not make me a part of Nazism in any way shape or form.

Aristotle said that one of the key precepts of the good life was "to love what you ought to love and to hate what you ought to hate."

Thus, the key to morality is to be "ordinate" in all things. Hatred isn't evil or corrupting if the thing we hate is worthy of being hated.

I hate slugs so i lay pellets

I do not resemble a slug either actaully or figuratively

edit : whic muppet thuimbed down siddhartha's take on lao tzu's understadning that 'to goodness i respond with quality to evil i repsond with quality' that is solid metaphysics and not a statment deserving a thumbs down mine is, but his isn't!

Datk Te.

It depends on where the hatred is coming from.

but It's not a very hypocritical thing.

If someone/thing dislikes you, and you dislike them back,

It doesn't make you them,

It just means the feeling is mutual.

Unless you lose to the other hatred. Don't fight hatred unless you could beat. Best to avoid if possible.

an oppressed man hating a tyrant wants freedom, not hatred, even if the tyrant hates him the same

I agree!

Even more so, you can never correct an error with another error.

As they say, 2 wrongs will not make a right!

Many Blessings!

Yeah..I don't want to be the thing I hate...I want to plant my foot on their prone "body" and raise my fist in the air..OH Yes:)