Is it a basic human need to have something or someone to hate?

Yes, we need to hate something somehow. If we hate someone or something, that is realistic and natural. However we will in the right way if choose to hate in the right place, such hating bullying to vulnerable person, hating littering in public, hating corruption etc. It's human nature to hate, love, being compassionate and so forth.

No. It a basic human need to have a rival, and you don't even need to hate them. Take for instance, your a cross country runner and you get along friendly with everyone on your team. A new person joins the after school advent that felt that your their rival(could be your best friend getting mad about you gloating about how your the fastest person in school trying to show you up) and kick your butt in the next race. They become your rival, but you also give them respect and they give you the same respect in fun competition. You start training together to outdo the other respectfully. Your rivals and your good friends and sometimes they win and sometimes you win. The only time where it becomes fruastrating for any of you is when either you always win or they always win. That can become fruastrating for any of you. Doesn't change the respect, only makes the other get frustrated with the other rival.

Depends on what you describe as human really. Sociopaths and psychopaths are often described as less than human and we don't "need" very many, if any emotions. But for ordinary people it could be, although I think it's more having someone to compete against, like a rival. But you could be friends with a rival as well. So I think having a competitor or a rival is an ordinary person need, but not necessarily hate itself

It's not at all a need. It's a disease caused by the people who always speak in that way. If they think for a while why they had been like that they can slowly get away from that bad habit.

Human beings are ruled by spirits but humans must learn to control and rule the spirits. Spirits possess people according to the mental state of the human beings and keep them in the same state until they are rejected and replaced by another. This is an all time phenomena occurring in all humans. Human beings are always under the influence of spirits. Certain situations and circumstances causes the possession of certain type of spirits. Often thinking and talking about bad subjects or bad imaginations even for fun can take serious turns on one who think and talk. All spirits (good and bad) have the dominating character. They can take you to the extent of sacrifice or suicide.

All of your activities, talks and even thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life. Only these spirits can create a good opportunity to get a job and all favorable things which you need to your life. Generally spirits determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. All knowledge, skills, emotions, feelings, interests and everything are spirits. Even thoughts are not your own. When you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another they think and you just listen and choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. Human beings are just unprogrammed robots made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., by birth and toys of the spirits for their games.

No, hate is a very wasteful state of mind, and can actually be seen as a 'luxury-problem', people that have things well enough hate a lot, people that are struggling to survive tend to hate a lot less.

So it's something you do out of boredom, rather than having a human-need.

No, and apparently it isn't a basic human need to have something to love, either. I, myself, have had NO emotions since the late '80s (coma). When my father died a couple of years later and I was told by phone at college, I said, "Oh, really?" He was a nice guy, but I couldn't cry for him, nor for any of my dogs or grandparents who have died since.

I have had many causes of be angry at people, which could lead to hate, but I have not been angry, so have had no reason to hate. I accept that others can express their hate for others, since that's caused by anger, which often comes from prejudice (which I don't have, either) against body type or creed or personal appearance (might show their income).

I don't hate, but I am still alive. I THINK I'm still a human.

no, it isn't. Hating in my opinion is a waste of brain power. The amount that one could spend time hating on something, they could have accomplished something else efficiently and with a clear and happy mind and they could have done it faster. If you hate too much, your soon to have a qhole life ahead of you with things that your not going to accept. It's better to cope and accept it rather than hate and wish it a horrible outcome... Now unless it was something that could kill you or it kills people then I guess it would be ok to hate. But if it's a scenario where you don't like a simple subject or matter that is harmless or if it's a person, then don't hate them, wish them well.

Yes, it is. like gossip is a human need. People think hating something or someone is bad. It's not. If not someone, then something. Hate is personal, but everyone will hate. It is a personal need.

hate is common, and part of humanity. when a child is born, they hate dirty diapers and nap time. children hate homework and chores. adults hate taxes and working dead end jobs. dissatisfaction, and the urge and want for something better is a very human thing and one of the main driving forces behind innovation. now hating other humans is another discussion altogether. i think humans over all are not entirely evil or good, but kind of a mixed bag. i really do not think there has ever been any civilization or community to date that has lived hate and or conflict free. humans are human after all and butting heads is what we do.

The most basic human need is to have a conversation wiith other human beings, and then, to love some other "pan narrans" (an ape telling stories). We are primates without a fur, expect in special places, and we can mate just like the Bonobo do.