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You should find another word, then. Because "hate" is still an emotion in my dictionary.

• akomtu 3y ago
  GP is right, though. Love and hatred are the two manifestations of the will: the will to create and the will to destroy. When you see a scary spider near you, that first impulse is the will to destroy. By the time the pure will reaches your motor neurons, it creates a lot of secondary effects, such as emotions. That's why there's a saying that desire is a weak will.
  • teo_zero 3y ago
    You might be right. However I don't see anything wrong if I feel a will to destroy something and I resist it, so that no harm comes from my hatred. Hatred by itself is not necessarily something to condemn. Therefore "hate speech" is a poor approximation of its commonly intended meaning, that is "speech aimed at acting (violently) against the object of one's hatred".
    • mbork_pl 3y ago
      Mostly agreed. > I don't see anything wrong if I feel a will to destroy something and I resist it, so that no harm comes from my hatred. Agreed. One nitpick: "harm" may also be e.g. psychological self-harm. In my mother tongue, when you willingly sustain your hate, we say that you "feed hate" - it is a very wise intuition, I think. And in my dictionary, "hatred" is always something to condemn - but OTOH, there is a vast difference between "emotional impulse" and "conscious will"... In other words, the words "feel" and "will" don't go together. To paraphrase EWD, you can no more "feel the will" than a submarine can swim;-). (Not a 100% correct analogy, but I couldn't resist.) (For the sake of completeness: I'm not sure if I agree with the create/destroy distinction.)