Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger?
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I dunno, what you’re saying seems ungenuine. you can’t name someone you hate because you don’t think about them?
Maybe you don’t understand what hate means. It doesn’t mean you’re obsessed with disliking them, it means intense dislike.
It doesn’t mean you spend time thinking about them. I hate(d) certain people in my life and if I was forced into a room with them I’d feel that feeling of intense dislike, but otherwise I don’t think about them. But I won’t pretend I don’t hate anyone just because I’m not actively discussing my feelings
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Hate is an extremely strong emotion. To me, it means basically that you wish they were dead. That I do not feel of anyone. However, I can’t say I intensely dislike anyone either. It’s not quite compatible with the way I see the world. Hating a person, to me, is like hating a hurricane or a volcano. It simply doesn’t make any sense.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Well that’s not the definition, so you’re probably not understanding because that’s not what most people mean.
Explain how, please. Because one is uncontrollable nature and the other has free will and chooses to do terrible things
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I don’t believe in free will or the self. That’s the difference for me here. Just like the hurricane couldn’t have done otherwise, I don’t think that a human could have either. I wouldn’t get angry at a bear attacking me in the forest either - that’s what bears do. Doesn’t mean I like it, or approve of it but I just don’t pretend as if they could have acted any other way.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Oh well if you don’t believe in free will or self then of course
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m kind of enjoying the fact that your post is coming off increasingly angry.