Racism, Nazis, Hatred, All That...

[Terminal Est]

I am quite wondering, everyone dislikes, hates and condemns white supremacists, right? And perhaps with good reason, but I often wonder, are all those people who condemn Neo Nazis really any better then THEM in the scheme of modern racism? People who hate Nazis might hate them just as much as a Nazi hates black people, or Jews.

Are there ANY good people in this world at all, or is racism merely a primitive form of hatred? Humans are humans, and we all hate, sometimes it does not even matter what the source of this hatred is, as long as we get to direct the emotion towards something, or someone. There is almost no need for justification, hatred merely takes different forms.

I would rather be able to prevent something like the Holocaust to happen again, instead of merely stating my dislike of Darwinism gone wrong...all this discrimination towards anyone from anyone only causes more strife and death in the end.

What is the origin of hatred, and what purpose does it serve? To relieve fear?
Opinions, ideas?

[Firesnake]

racism is hating someone because they are who they are.
My hate towards racism is oriented because those people judge people on the outside and think they are better than them.
They think they are better because the are from "the right race" and look down uppon evetyone who is different.
That is the key difference I think

Hatred is a word that describes intense feelings of dislike. It can be used in a wide variety of contexts, from hatred of vegetables to hatred of other people. Prejudice or bigotry against an entire class of people (e.g. racism) are examples of hatred.

Philosophers have offered many influential definitions of hatred. Rene Descartes viewed hate as an awareness that something is bad, combined with an urge to withdraw from it. Baruch Spinoza defined hate as a type of pain that is due to an external cause. Aristotle viewed hate as a desire for the annihilation of an object that is incurable by time. Finally, David Hume believed that hate is an irreducible feeling that is not definable at all.

In psychology, Sigmund Freud defined hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness. In a more contemporary definition, the Penguin Dictionary of Psychology defines hate as a "deep, enduring, intense emotion expressing animosity, anger, and hostility towards a person, group, or object." Because hatred is believed to be long-lasting, many psychologists consider it to be more of an attitude or disposition than a (temporary) emotional state.

[JET73L]

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Are there ANY good people in this world at all...[quote]
This may be cynical of me, but yes. There are. They're just mobbed/killed/manipulated/suppressed/outnumbered to the point of complete obscurity by all to other people. Example: Early christianity. Jesus was supposed to have used ex-convicts and liars to spread the word of his good, I assume because if he'd used people that started out the picture of morality, they wouldn;t have been able to get anyone to listen. (that's just an example).

As for racism, I have a theory as to one of thew underlying causes (of racism in general, not of any specific racism) could be rooted in the theory of natural selection: A species that conquers rather than cohabitates has a greater chance of increasing its num,bers, and thus the probabilioty that it will be able to continue to increase its num,bers. Eventually, this competition becomes more and more refined to the point that every single being of the species has been ingrained by every subconscious or conscious action of its predecessors to destroy anyone or anything that provides competition (in reference toward food, in reference toward mates it usually requires only a metaphorical death for the survival of the genes and mentality of the "winner"). The ideas being passed down through even subconscious actions means that the human species, and most other species for that matter, will never be free of racism, because of how deeply it's been ingrained since the first time a being encounters stimulus caused by nther living being, as well as the genetic training to be agressive towards competition in the first place. Humans will not be able to stop racism completely, it's like the whole One Sin effect, where only a human purely without sin can release humanity from their bonds of inherent darkness, but, by definitiuon, the human has at least a kernel of such darkness.

temporarily [/cynicism]