Yeesh... that first one made me wince a little. I mean, I'm an atheist but it's not my entire life. I do disagree with some of the messages in religion and some of the the ideas it teaches/preaches but I don't hate religion or the religious, I've just got a different viewpoint. It's no worse than saying I agree more with Queen than I do with the Beatles. However, this will lead me onto the original topic:
People who criticize/deny something they have no working understanding of. It's does nothing but form a weak weak argument that anyone can refute, it makes you look stupid and it wastes everyone's time ?including yours. Researching a subject before making a claim against it, if nothing else, will mean that your arguments will have more weight to them.
Anyone who thinks that it's okay to drink and drive. I lost two good friends that way; the guy who was driving and the girl he hit. There's never a good excuse to put peoples lives at risk and expect to be lucky all the time. Call me biased and naive if you want, but the law is there for this particular reason.
Radio DJs. Granted I do not dislike all of them, just the select few who are politically, morally or ethically biased. I don't like being preached to and I especially don't like being told what my opinion about something should be just because someone thinks I'm somehow wrong for disagreeing with them, but more than that I find it disgusting that they offer to take the opinions of other people but only present their side of the story without letting the opposition get a word in.
Anyone who thinks rape only counts when a woman is raped by a man but never the other way around. It's a sickening double-standard and it needs to be phased out immediately.
I could go on, but I think you get the jist of where I'm coming from by now. I simply don't tolerate the intolerable. I don't agree with hate, hypocrisy, black-and-white thinking and/or ignorance in any form but I will never hate anyone myself because of those things; I simply disagree with it. Society isn't perfect and we do what we can to get by, I understand this, but there's never a good excuse to do something deplorable with that will hurt a person or a group of people; indirectly, directly, physically, emotionally and/or psychologically.
People who criticize/deny something they have no working understanding of. It's does nothing but form a weak weak argument that anyone can refute, it makes you look stupid and it wastes everyone's time ?including yours. Researching a subject before making a claim against it, if nothing else, will mean that your arguments will have more weight to them.
Anyone who thinks that it's okay to drink and drive. I lost two good friends that way; the guy who was driving and the girl he hit. There's never a good excuse to put peoples lives at risk and expect to be lucky all the time. Call me biased and naive if you want, but the law is there for this particular reason.
Radio DJs. Granted I do not dislike all of them, just the select few who are politically, morally or ethically biased. I don't like being preached to and I especially don't like being told what my opinion about something should be just because someone thinks I'm somehow wrong for disagreeing with them, but more than that I find it disgusting that they offer to take the opinions of other people but only present their side of the story without letting the opposition get a word in.
Anyone who thinks rape only counts when a woman is raped by a man but never the other way around. It's a sickening double-standard and it needs to be phased out immediately.
I could go on, but I think you get the jist of where I'm coming from by now. I simply don't tolerate the intolerable. I don't agree with hate, hypocrisy, black-and-white thinking and/or ignorance in any form but I will never hate anyone myself because of those things; I simply disagree with it. Society isn't perfect and we do what we can to get by, I understand this, but there's never a good excuse to do something deplorable with that will hurt a person or a group of people; indirectly, directly, physically, emotionally and/or psychologically.