You know... In order to live a good life with ethics and concern for people you have to love someone. Be it someone who is struggling hard to make ends meet, someone who may be from another culture or even simply to love yourself enough to want to be someone respectable.
When hate eclipses this love inside then, selfishness and false narratives drown out this feeling of love and caring for everyone and everything.
People riddled by this hate do not care about their self image, they only care about hurting others. By taking away the things they love. i.e. their healthcare and safety net, their freedom, their hope of a path for citizenship, their clean water, their electricity and the sanctity of their island in the Atlantic, they will even take away their children to prevent them from realizing a better existence. They greedily profit from the misery of others, their souls are darkened and they have no love at all. They do not even care about their own wife enough to remain faithful... and they would let their children take the fall for them rather than do the right thing.
Others with no feeling and a heartless existence identify with this same hate and want to see it do harm to others less fortunate then themselves.
All because they do not love anything enough to lift themselves up out of their own despair and learn to care for others.
It only takes a little bit of love to turn around and see the error of their ways but they have no love at all. Love unravels riddles and love sheds light on their hate. If they had love they would see the path of compassion. If they had love their heart would be wide open and they would not lump the good people with the bad people just because of the color of their skin. They would not let school children starve because their father is sick and does not have a job. They would not pollute the water and air just to make their sightless partisan political party more powerful. They would see solutions other than guns... The would not hunt endangered animals just for a trophy to stroke their loveless ego. If they had love, they could see passion over principle and the black and white would turn to a gray area, a less critical sense of judgment, an acceptance towards others.
If they had love they would not envy the accomplishments of others and out of jealousy set out to undo them. They would make their own accomplishments shine rather than tarnish the good out of spite. They would build bridges to our allies rather than walls...
All because they do not have something they love, they lust instead.
They lust after money, porn stars, power, and begrudge someone else even a handshake that subtracts from their own glory.
Love is not lust... Love is fulfilling while lust leaves one empty and unfulfilled.
I just thought I would insert a pause in this thread just to reflect on the motives of some of the people here.
A loveless person knows what they are doing is wrong... but spite has grown larger than their love and it has eclipsed the sunlight in their heart.
Even a tiny bit of love seems foreign to them. They think hate and fear are love.
I will say this as I have said it before in this forum.
Love motivation is much greater in the positive than fear can ever be in the negative. Expect those with this brand of hate and envy of others to pass soon as, "love conquereth all".
You may resume...
