(February 19, 2015 at 9:50 am)Losty Wrote:(February 19, 2015 at 9:08 am)Irrational Wrote: If I had to hate someone, it wouldn't be for merely their beliefs but how they treat me. That's if I had to hate someone.
I don't literally mean to hate them. I just say it because I took a popular Christian phrase "hate the sin, not the sinner" and made it secular. I am trying to get a feel on how far a person can go action wise and I can still say "well, yea, but they're deluded by their beliefs. It's not their fault".
At what point does the personal responsibility kick in? I just...I have a bad habit of making excuses for people who do crappy things to me. Usually there's a pretty clear line, but when it comes to religion I have a harder time.
The way I see it is just because it's not their fault the way they are does not mean that one cannot reasonably hate them (or rather dislike/detest them) for the stuff they may do to others.
I don't have to hold anyone personally responsible for anything in order to have a strong dislike of the person. If that person kept unapologetically abusing me to no end, I could care less about whether they could help it or not. What they did was continually invoke unpleasant feelings in me towards them through their actions that I cannot but detest them ... and also feel pity for them as well.
