Hate

:For other meanings, see Hate (disambiguation).

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Hate or hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon; a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy its object. The emotion is often stigmatized; yet it serves important evolutionary purposes, as does love.

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Hatred can be based on fear of its object, justified or unjustified, or past negative consequences of dealing with that object. Hatred is often described as the opposite of love or friendship; others, such as Elie Wiesel, consider the opposite of love to be indifference. See love-hate relationship.

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Hatred is not necessarily irrational or unusual. It is reasonable to hate people and organizations that threaten or inflict suffering on oneself, or whose survival interests are directly opposed to one's own. People hate impediments to their health and wellbeing. Popular objects of hate include other identity groups, political factions and ideologies, natural sources of suffering, and paradoxically, hate itself.

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Often 'hate' is used casually to describe things one merely dislikes, such as a particular style of architecture, a certain climate, a bad movie, one's job, or some particular food.

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"Hate" or "hatred" is also used to describe feelings of prejudice or bigotry against a group of people, such as racism, and intense religious prejudice. Hate crimes are crimes committed out of hatred in this sense.

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Sometimes people, when harmed by a member of an ethnic or religious group, will come to hate that entire group. Some consider this to be socially unacceptable--Western culture, for example, frowns on collective punishment and insists that people be treated as individuals rather than members of groups. Others view such generalizing behavior as rational and indeed, necessary in order to ensure group survival in the face of competing groups which often lack such scruples.

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Hate is often a precursor to violence. Before a war, it is often useful to train the populace to hate some nation or political regime. Hatred remains a major motive behind armed conflicts such as war and terrorism. It is not easy to know when hate is logical and when it has become counterproductive and self-perpetuating.

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Emotion: In psychology and common use, emotion is an aspect of a human being's mental state, normally based in or tied to the person's internal (physical) and external (social) sensory feeling. Love, hate, courage, fear, joy, sadness, pleasure and disgust can all be described in philosophical (encompassing t...

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Love: : For the 1960s band, see Love. The term is also used in tennis....

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