Hate

To summarize: with thinking of evil as instead a sort of "profound stupidity" there is little to no reason in today's world to believe in hate. Hate is only of use if you think you need to physically apply force at a moments notice. Hate was probably more needed in the far past when physical violence was more of a way of life. Back then there may have been more reason to think of certain harmful acts as being based on "evil" instead of considering them a sort of profound stupidity.

To feel hate towards someone means believing in evil. Is there ever a good, logical reason to believe in evil? Does instead calling 'evil', 'profound stupidity' really change anything at all? If we instead call it profound stupidity, does the hate go away?

The way we treat one another can be loosely divided into two ways:
1. The leftwing way, where we try to reason with people.
2. The rightwing way, where we try to use force.

Does the rightwing way get good results ever?

If we believe that some people are truly incapable of being reasoned with, then the only way to get them to stop or start doing something, is to resort to force and/or threats of force.

Capitalism, BTW, is based on this concept. The idea that people won't diligently work unless they have the threat of unemployment/no money hanging over them.

Ideally we could always reason with people. But I must sadly admit it seems quite often that doing so doesn't get anywhere. The "rightwing" way often seems to be needed. Often force seems to be needed.

And so hate seems to be tied into force, is hate also needed then? Could it actually serve some useful purpose? Did we evolve it for a useful reason?

If a person is profoundly stupid (evil) or for that matter just stupid (I use the word 'stupid' very deliberately instead of ignorant as I'm talking of the situation where it definitely isn't just ignorance,) then perhaps it is unfortunately useless to reason with them. In which case there seems to be nothing for it but to turn to force. As this need for force is the same whether they are stupid or "evil" (profoundly stupid), hate does not naturally go along with force as there is no need for hate if an action can be labeled as just stupid.

In this way hate does not go along with force.

But force, which is also violence, is often better applied if you get angry, if you feel hate. The hormones get running, the blood vessels constrict, you can much better jump up and apply force.

So, although logically there is no need to feel hate in the face of harmful acts, as they can all be thought of as just different types of stupidity instead of being evil, any kind of stupidity unfortunately means that force is going to be needed. Profound stupidity (evil) may mean much more force is going to be needed as the person just flat out doesn't care that they're causing harm and is more likely to cause a lot of harm if you try to intervene.

And in order to apply that force in the past, it was very useful to get angry in order to be better able to apply that physical force. It was very useful to believe in evil in order to feel hate and thus get angry.

We have evolved to think of many harmful actions as evil instead of stupid. Thinking of them as evil caused us to feel hate. Feeling hate made us angry. Getting angry made us better able to physically apply the force that was necessary to combat the "evil", (really just stupid,) action.

It does seem that unfortunately hate serves a purpose. Or at least it really used to serve a purpose.

If I manage to remove all belief in evil from me by instead thinking of "evil" as profound stupidity, then I find I no longer feel hate. But in losing my hate towards such harmful people, I'm making myself less able to apply the force that at least in the far past was a very real part of life.

In today's world, the need for human beings to use their physical bodies to apply force upon others is mostly gone. As such, hate serves very little useful purpose. It mostly just stresses out the body and shortens the lifespan.

In today's world hate serves very, very little useful purpose. If we don't believe in evil and instead call it profound stupidity then there is no feeling of hate at all. Unfortunately we seem programmed to believe in evil. The mind must conquer the "instincts" in order to get rid of hate.

We do unfortunately still have to resort to force sometimes. But it is always the last resort. When we have to resort to force we have, to an extent, failed.