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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 i

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.)