Talk:Salem/@comment-31140854-20190118214017/@comment-35434444-20190617180059

@Megadracosaurus

How can you hate a person you know nothing about?

Sure, if some guy just barged into your house with a gun and killed everyone, you'd feel some very powerful negative emotions that would be directed at the murderer. But the murderer would only exist to you as the person who murdered your family because that would be all you'd know about him.

You wouldn't actually hate him at all. You wouldn't even perceive him as a person. All you'd see is what he did to you.

A projection of yourself. (Which is one of the many many reasons that revenge is futile.)

You don't like it when people hurt others you love and getting angery is the natural response to that, but that's not the same thing as hating a person even if that appears to be the case in everyday speech and reasoning.

The real point of what I said was that if you know a person, you will inevitably find things about them that you love and others that you hate because they will inevitably be the same qualities viewed from different perspectives.