In "Notes of a Native Son," Baldwin explores how hate is detrimental to the soul: "Hatred which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law." (53).
Do you think that hate is ever justifiable, even righteous? Why or why not? Explain your answer.
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i think hate can really kill a person. if you spend your life looking at the negative sides of everyhitng and only seeing hats wrong with every picture, not only are you hating those things, but youre hating your life. once you start realizing that you hate everything in your life, you come to question your existence. if theres nothing on this world worth living for than why should i live. hate can lead to suicide or even murder. to hate is also to hold a grudge and never let go. by doing that youre building up the hate inside of you util one day it just explodes and something extremely bd happens. so i dont think there is ever a good time to hate. to hate is to kill.
i don't think hate is justifiable enough to want to commit a crime. hate is an emotion that i think a lot of people would rather hold just so they could avoid pain. i believe you have to have enough pain in your heart to hate someone or something so much. but to hold onto to that hate for so long seems meaningless because it only begins to eat you up inside.
the word hate is commonly used. i think most people dont hate others, they rather just dislike them which is way different. hate is the utmost extreme negative feeling towards another. i think hate is justifiable only under certain circumstances. if someone burned your house down for example, i thnk that is a good reason to allow yourself to hate that person. but sometimes hate can take you nowhere. it can drive you to do crazy things or just play minds games on you. like you shouldnt hate your boyfriend for breaking up with you cuz that happens to most people and it part of the circle of life. but certain extreme case justifies hatred.
hate is not justifiable. it is rather just a word that is commonly used. for example if a person doesnt liek what the other person did to them or whatever then they would just say that "i hate you." even though there is nothign like that in their heart or anythng but people just liek to say it. but on the other side, if one does really hate someone then they should not hold grudges against one another. because what it does is it only makes you hate every person and even yourself at one point of your life. so in my opinion, one should just lead their lives happily instead of just avoiding others and hating them for what happened.
i do not think hate can ever be righteous or justifiable but having said that,i understand how difficult it is to forgive.it always seems more painful to forgive that is why it feels more logical to hate.hate only clouds ones judgement and prevents us from seeing or feeling more important things.we carry an extra burden when we hate and in a world were it is sinful to weigh more than 200lb,we are at a huge disadvantage when we carry along any baggage of hate.
I think hate is something you can only speak about if you've ever truly, deeply felt it. So, in that case I am not, and many of us probably are not necessarily in a position to talk about it. Real hate is not the hate I have for pop singers, or my boring job, and it's not the hate high school kids have for their principals. The word is just thrown around freely, but it's something much deeper. Whether or not it's justifiable is hard to say. In my opinion, I think it is justifiable in the sense that reasonable causes may be found for it. You can not judge somebody's feelings of hate fairly until you understand what lead to those feelings. They may be justified. However, I don't believe it's ever righteous. I doubt even people who do truly hate something think it is righteous. It's not like hate makes someone feel good. It consumes them. And though it may be justified sometimes, I think ultimately hate is when a person gives up on trying to find the good in things. It's sort of the easy way out. Therefore, it can never be seen as righteous.
I do think there are certain situations where one would be justified in hating someone else. However, I still think that if that person was smart, he would work his hardest to try to overcome his hate. Even if it's totally justifiable, at the end of the day, the only person it's really hurting, is the one who's full of that hatred. When someone goes through life so full of hate, it just ends up eating away at their soul and causing them to do terrible things. In the end, by carrying that anger and hatred with them, they're only hurting themselves. So, I think it's in people's best interest to overcome any feelings of anger and hatred, because that will make them a better and happier person in the long run. It doesn't matter if it's justified, it can still have a terribly negative impact on your life.
Hate should never be justified or righteous. If we begin to think like that then there would be no order in society. Hate only brings sorrow and suffering. But without suffering there would be no compassion. There could have been many wars avoided, and achievements made beyond are imagination if hate did not exist. But it does and the best way to deal with it is to realize that it is there and won’t go away, as long as people are jealous, choose to kill, choose to rape, and choose to have war, or disagree with a creed or the color of a person’s skin.
There are three different forms of hate: a large dislike of something, for example a certain food (ex. I really hate anchovies!,impulse driven hate and the grudge. Impulse driven hate is what drives people to crimes; to kill and steal. while its easy to say its unjustifiable, everyone has those moments, where someone or something, just pisses you the hell off. even still, there's no excuse for an extreme reaction like that. Third, is the grudge, the long term hate. To hate something till you cant remember why you hated it in the first place. Its justifiable in the sense that forgiveness isnt easy to give- its a lot easier to hate. Even more so, to justify a grudge is to know everything, like omnipotent knowing, of whatever caused that hate. If we had that level of knowing to begin with,then we might be able to understand and forgive whatever caused the grudge to begin with.
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