Why do people hate?

Simple question. I'm hoping that from the answers we can see possible methods to help bring people out of hatred. I'm a firm believer in talking things out and I think a lot of people need some form of therapy just to be heard. I think there is a tendency for people (in general) not to care about others unless it affects them. And if people see you doing something bad, maybe even something that lands you in jail, people simply feel even more justified in not caring about any of your situation that led you to that point. But people didn't simply wake up one day in a KKK grand wizard outfit. It was a path. And in some cases people who maybe seemed like good people contributed to that path. So why do people hate? And is there anything we can do to stop that hatred?

May the Force be with you

Hate seems to spring from fear, either consciously or subconsciously. Just saying "fear" though, is not clear enough as you would have have to understand how fear works and specifically what kind of fear is in play within an individual or collective unconscience. Fear can either be manifested within the moment or be very slowly developed over a span of years. Fear seems to spring from the unknown. As we lack understanding, we can't predict what will come of something, so as a survival mechanism, we assume the worst to be prepared. Fear manifests, and hatred follows, all in defense for survival.

The solution, therefore, seems to be education. Help people not only understand what they hate, but they must be able to trust the source of information to assimilate to it.

This all applies not only to hating other people but also toward ourselves, which is probably the most important of all.

@Carlos

That was kind of beautiful, man. Good post.

I heard fear. Fear is a good one. I'd like to go deeper on fear as causation.

but also, what about pain? Can pain, untreated, twist itself into other negative symptoms like hate?

ZealotX wrote: I heard fear. Fear is a good one. I'd like to go deeper on fear as causation.

but also, what about pain? Can pain, untreated, twist itself into other negative symptoms like hate?

Pain usually causes you to withdraw, you loose a sense of connection with others and so you cant always empathise. I would say this makes it easier in a sense to hate others.
Emotional pain is usually accompanied by self hate and you can't extend love if you can't feel it for yourself.

I don't find hate is always fear. People use that argument a lot but sometimes hate starts with love.

I tend to think hate comes from disconnection. A feeling we are outsiders from something,.
It is sometimes learned behaviour too, if you grow up only knowing hate then its normal.

Not that any emotion isnt normal. How we deal with it and what our actions are matter. Hates just a normal storm.

"Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. People fear they won't get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower." - Yoda

I'm searching for an answer to this question, myself. Lately I've been struggling with a deep and profound hatred of someone who hurt me. I've loved and lost several times, but it's never been quite like this before, and thankfully a certain part of me is self-aware enough to realize that hatred isn't the answer. There is something extremely cathartic about the idea of making this person feel deep, excruciating emotional/psychological pain, the idea of getting them to feel the way that I feel. As if it will prove some kind of point that I feel was missed. Thankfully I only cut myself off from them instead. I don't want to become someone who hurts others for relief. But still, all my attempts at self-reflection are inevitably cut short by this burning desire for revenge, that just seems to self-reinforce the more I think about it and consume all other rationale, until I force myself to forget. Even now as I write this I'm tempted instead to explain the opposite viewpoint--the one that I know is wrong, and that I need to tether myself to a mental "rock" in order to find my way back from--which is that there DO exist people who lack the capacity for empathy, who inherently reject genuine human connection and substitute it with devices for control, who lie pathologically and who will wring all the life out of anyone who gets too close until they've been used up, and then discard them like a wet paper towel. And that these people deserve to have every bit of the pain they've caused dished back at them, with interest, and then some. And that maybe, just maybe, the world could be better off without them...

Of course, I remind myself, even the most emotionally disconnected among us are only acting out of pain, and when I think of this person in that way, I understand completely--given everything they've been through--how they could become this way, and how it isn't my fault for not seeing it in time. And I know, consciously, that the best I can do is move on with my life--and even from the point of view of the illusory "dark side," the best "revenge," if one could call it that, would be precisely that: Moving on, being reborn, and building myself back up where they thought to tear me down.

But that knowledge only carries me so far, until I'm reminded again, by the next song or dream or even acts of kindness from others--ones that they've now conditioned me to suspect as false and manipulative--pulls me out of the world again, and makes me act negatively. I don't want this, and I want to understand it, so that I can be myself again.

Pain naturally creates a type of unconscious fear, again, all part of the human defensive mechanism for survival.

Example: A woman breaks a man's heart. The man is hurt. The man may then come to not only feel hate for the woman, but the very idea of being involved in relationships with any other women. His hate manifests from pain and a fear that he will get hurt again if he gets involved with any one else, to influence himself to stay in away from what hurt him.

So there are multiple facets to what creates hate, as I cannot hate a stove for having burned me when I touch it. Psychological / Emotional pain is involved with fear, anger, love, jealousy and all kinds of other emotions depending on the situation, all as a mechanism for survival.

I...have had moments where I hated...is that what your asking? Why do we have those moments? At it's core, hate is an abundance of focus and energy dedicated solely to a single task. I don't carry hate around because nothing has presented itself so worthy of that much of my being....perhaps I am an ignorant one on this topic....