Do You Hate People Who Disagrees With You?

[Mersadeon]

Hate is a pretty strong word. No, I hate a person just because they disagree with you. I only start really "hating" someone once that person has done something to me and mine - just feeling-wise. Obviously I can despise someone, but unless I haven't seen their face and they haven't done something directly to me or someone I hold dear, I never have that pure, unadulterated HATE.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Only when they have no back up. I once wrote that the PS4 is simple and non offensive because Sony was in debt and they cant risk a fail. The person insulted me and said Sony were rich etc. An i gave them links that proved that Sony was still in debt and they were silent. Even now Sony is saying if PS4 fails they will quit (hopefully) just the hard ware business.

Sometimes i comment and dont have all the facts. Thats fine, if a person treats me respectfully and tells me what the facts are without insulting me. Im fine with that, if im wrong then i dont mind learning from some that knows what they are talking about.

 

[Gitty101]

Hate is too strong a word in this case, at least regarding me. It really depends on the issue, but I usually respect a difference in opinion.

 

[LetalisK]

It depends quite significantly on what we're disagreeing on. There are some opinions that go beyond merely disagreeable. I'm also of the opinion that all but a small extraordinary minority conduct themselves this way in practice.

 

[spartan231490]

I had someone tell me this on The Escapist forum the other day: "Hating someone for disagreeing with you is hating them for what they do rather than what they are, so it seems like a perfectly valid reason to hate someone."

I think this is problem with trying to discuss any issues online. People are more interested in attacking people who disagrees with them. Rather than, discussing the issues in a rationally way.

Do you think it's acceptable to hate people, because they disagree with you?

I think you're mis-understanding something. Disliking people for disagreeing with you is very different from disliking people for the opinions they hold. That's the missing step. People disliking others for their opinions is common place. Atheism, Christianism, Jewdaism, pro-life, pro-choice . . . the list goes on. Disliking someone for disagreeing with you is generally frowned upon, yet disliking or even attacking people for holding "indefensible" opinions is not only common-place, it's often lauded by a community.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

It really is case by case. Some disagreements, well, most, nearly all aren't worth it. Generally, they stay neutral with me, strangers that disagree.

I'd rather have something more solid to hate someone for. More what they present than them disagreeing. If someone's nothing but butt to me, I'll see'em as an ass.

Of course if the disagreeing person is hateful, spiteful, belligerent, oppressive, intolerant, or some such, I can certainly feel disgust, loathing, no desire to talk with them further, dissapointment, annoyance, and such negative, but temporary feelings.
Lets not forget willfully ignorant, blind, and/or stupid to foster such genative perspectives of a person.

People who are intolerant, bigoted, and such, I try to tolerate them, but they certainly can't ask me to. Rspecially if they're sexist, or racist, or anto LGBT. PoVs like those will dredge up negativity, obviously. I certainly won't like these people.
This makes gender issues in games something of a sticky situation sometimes. Even with the often reasonable people of the Escapist.

 

[grey_space]

Yes. I hate them. Those ignoramuses that have the sheer unmitigated gall to disagree with me.

How dare they.

Of course I hate those other fuckers too, those toadying sycophants that agree with me.

The creepy lickarses.

Everyone else is ok.

 

[clippen05]

Only if they refuse to hear my side of an argument. If they let me speak my point and still don't agree with me afterwards, that's fine, but if they refuse to even listen to what I have to say then screw them.

 

[TWRule]

I had someone tell me this on The Escapist forum the other day: "Hating someone for disagreeing with you is hating them for what they do rather than what they are, so it seems like a perfectly valid reason to hate someone."

I didn't read the thread, so someone (I hope) has said this already, but this is non-sensical reasoning. First they distinguish between persons and actions, then somehow hating the action entails hating the person? No sense...

I think this is problem with trying to discuss any issues online. People are more interested in attacking people who disagrees with them. Rather than, discussing the issues in a rationally way.

Agreed, though it's nearly as much a problem offline as online.

Do you think it's acceptable to hate people, because they disagree with you?

Of course not. The correct response here is 'I may or may not 'hate' others (more like 'be frustrated with' others) who disagree with me, but it is not *because* they disagree with me that I 'hate' them. That would just be completely self-indulgent to a degree that only the most spoiled children (or ruthless tyrants) might be capable of, and even that is questionable.

 

[Habballah]

I had someone tell me this on The Escapist forum the other day: "Hating someone for disagreeing with you is hating them for what they do rather than what they are, so it seems like a perfectly valid reason to hate someone."

I think this is problem with trying to discuss any issues online. People are more interested in attacking people who disagrees with them. Rather than, discussing the issues in a rationally way.

Do you think it's acceptable to hate people, because they disagree with you?

I think the biggest problem you might have,
this the notion hatred is inherently a bad thing.

We go to movies to hate characters,
we watch tv for the same reason,
books, more of the same.

You shouldn't close yourself up to one opinion. What if you simply put like having a rival? I can hate and respect someone.
those are my favorite kind.

 

[Innegativeion]

Become frustrated with them? At times.

Shake my head in bemusement? Occasionally.

Grow angry with their audacity? Depends on the argument.

But hate? No no no no no, never hate them. They're not trying to do me harm or to crush my worldview. They merely have a different perspective than me. By challenging my beliefs, they can only bring us further to the truth, provided there isn't some mass-manipulation going on (unlikely on a random web forum).

In fact, for this reason, I should be grateful to dissenters, no matter how much they aggravate me at times. Truth is a product grown in a crucible. You can't have it without disagreement and challenge.

To hate someone for having a different locus of perception than you is counter-intuitive.

I think the biggest problem you might have,
this the notion hatred is inherently a bad thing.

We go to movies to hate characters,
we watch tv for the same reason,
books, more of the same.

You shouldn't close yourself up to one opinion. What if you simply put like having a rival? I can hate and respect someone.
those are my favorite kind.

I think you're confusing hatred for competition.

The same confusion several corporate executives and outspoken consumers often have.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

It would really depend on what the disagreement was- if they were a massive racist or something then I suppose I might hate them for that, or at least dislike them a considerable amount more. Usually though... not really. If you hated everyone that you disagreed with then you'd have no friends, you have to learn to accept that people have a different worldview and that's that.

Besides, I struggle to give enough of a shit about things enough to hate people a lot of the time.

 

[DkLnBr]

Depends on what we're disagreeing about, but for the most part I'm fine with it. I think that everyone can believe what they want, kumbaya and all that shit. Actually seeing a different perspective on things has evolved my own opinions in the past, so I'd even encourage disagreement! It keeps me open-minded, well-balanced and grounded. I still find myself getting caught off guard though when someone says they don't agree with something that I considered "universally liked or accepted" but I don't hate them for it.
Pretty easy for me though, I'm a really easy going guy and generally act like a dog when it comes to people, I lick like everyone! Its hard to get under my skin.

 

[Grach]

I don't think hating someone for simply disagreeing with you is a healthy attitude to take when arguing for your opinion.

That said, if the aforementioned disagreement is REALLY stupid over something that should be a non-issue, I might find it in myself to dislike that person. Maybe hate is a bit too strong of a feeling.

This. Many people use the word "hate" way too liberally. At least to me, to hate someone goes beyond simply disliking. It goes beyond even the coldest indifference. To hate someone or something is to actually watch it either die slowly and horribly (say from cancer or ALS) or simply see wiped it from existence entirely.

Sure, for example, I dislked a lot of people that posted on the "Brothers/Papers, Please ZP" incident but I don't actully hate them. Sure they pissed me off, but I don't hate them for voicing their opinions.

So no. I don't hate them. Not really.

 

[Kittyhawk]

I get a lot of what you might call 'hate', when some disagree with me. However, I do my best to rise above it with a good sense of humour. Even if I disagree with a person here or elsewhere, I don't know anyone enough to love or hate them.

Hate is also perhaps too strong a word. It'd be a strange world if we all had the same point of view anyway.

 

[sumanoskae]

Well that sort of depends on the opinion, doesn't it. I mean, I see no reason to dislike somebody because they don't eat bacon, (Even though they are completely mad for not doing so) but I'd say that if somebody harbored the opinion that it was ethically acceptable to molest goats that would be a pretty good reason to dislike them.

 

[conmag9]

To be honest, it depends on their presentation. If they're polite, reasonable, and accepting of the idea that someone else has a differing opinion on something, I'll return the favor with glee. Heck, I disagree with lots of people I like on one thing or another, but as long as we keep it civil, it makes for interesting intellectual debate.

If the other individual is rude, dismissive and/or condescending, that tends to get under my skin. If your point is superior to my own, you shouldn't have to rely on such tactics.

 

[Da Orky Man]

The way I see it is that there is always a significant chance that I'm wrong about something. Yes, a few things cannot be wrong by their very nature, like 2+2=4 (Except in Oceania), but when it comes to whether cannabis legalisation is a good idea, or how piracy may or may not harm the industry, those are cases where the answer is not straightforward. There are some things I'm better versed in than others, but someone out there is going to be more well-equipped to handle them than I am.