(March 16, 2013 at 12:40 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The only compassionate response to injustice is to oppose it. Whether you call that hatred or not I suppose is a matter of semantics.
I guess, but I wouldn't call the bare opposition of injustice "hatred". That doesn't capture the meaning I've acquired for the word. What Apo says captures some of that fight-to-defend-what-is-dear aspect of hatred and the strength of the urge to destroy what is hated. Rage comes close I think to capturing the same range of response but where rage describes what is going on me, hate emphasizes how I feel about the object of my rage.
