Negative emotions. I've had beef with them for a long time. I think I have a little more insight on them now. This is a work in progress.
Since it's in the blog lately, I'll use ''No on Prop 8'' protesters as an example. Specifically, those who shout obscenities, make obscene gestures, throw things, and generally be violent, rude, and disrespectful. They try to fight back against hate with even more hate.
Now, rather than just being wronged, and being beaten that way, they have turned around and surrendered themselves to the guidance of the very mindset of hate that defeated them in the first place. They enslave themselves to it, accomplishing the goals of hate, and being completely ruined.
Hate has never defeated hate because hate is just a void of love. If you add a big hole in the ground to another big hole in the ground, they don't cancel each other out. They make a hole bigger than either of the first two.
It's not only ''not worth it'' to hate a person, it's counterproductive, self-destructive, crippling of free-will, hypocritical, since we hate their actions, and yet we let hate drive us to retaliation....the only thing worth hating is hate itself; but even that can't be carried out with hate. Hate must simply cease to exist if it is ever to be stopped. Love fills the void that hate is. It displaces hate into nonexistence.
There are principles to order and truth, yet none to disorder and lies. Order and truth hold information, patterns, and evidence of design.
Voids (chaos, lies, disorder, hate) are easy to define. There is no pattern, information, or design in chaos, for example. There is simply nothing there; it is a void. In that respect, hate is no different.
Virtues (love, truth, order) are harder (or impossible) to define, just like many who struggle with questions like ''what is love?'' and ''what is truth?'' with much time spent scratching the surface of these questions.
Anger can never stop anger. Fear will never stop itself in its own tracks.
Nevertheless, be true to yourself. You can't do right to deny what you're feeling, but you do have the ability to define what you feel. Align yourself with virtues, and don't let an unguarded thought infect your mind with a void. If you do, it will cause your thoughts to reproduce more copies of itself, and they can take over, just like a virus.
