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[QUOTE=David Cain;350278]

You do have a point, and I think that's the reason we evolved to hate. It is a powerful motivator. Hate is an effective survival mechanism, it protected us from complacency and the treachery of others for thousands of years

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Please provide your reasoning and proof that the emotion of hate was a survival mechanism and protected us from complacency. Who is the us? and who did 'the us' need protection from?

Before civilization, where when there were no laws and little technology to help us, hate and other negative emotions would have been extremely useful. Dissatisfaction, paranoia and prejudice were good for keeping people alive. But I think they have become mostly obsolete now.

Please tell me where you learnt that law came about after/or along side civilisation. law came about with the forming of communities. The first community being families.
Please tell me how technology has become a useful tool against hate. Has civilisation made the world less paranoid, has technology made the world less disatisfied or prejudice?

Most of the western world has become civilised going well over a century? Have we not had 2 world wars based on hate in the last 50 to a 100 yrs?
Has there been a decade without war?
Has technology and civilisation stopped the isrealites and palestinians from fighting?
Was it not even 50 years ago that blacks had to wrestle their rights in USA (one of the most civilised countries in the world) from many whites that hated them.
Is there not still racial hatred purpertrated by blacks, whites in every civilised country in the world. Is there still not alot of jjewish hatred in many european and islamic countries.

please tell me how technology and civilisation has stopped the feud in Northern Ireland.

Love is far more powerful for achieving what you say you use fear for. I've tried both, and I am far more productive and effective using love as my motivator.

IMO love is just a more advanced tool for self-improvement. Hate has too many side effects: it distorts reality, infuriates others, and worst of all it detracts from your quality of life in the moment. This is not necessary; there is a better way. We are evolving past hate. Everything you can accomplish with it, you can accomplish without it, better, faster, and while having more fun.

see, you contradicted yourself. On one hand you say hate distorts reality, but then you say earlier we needed it to defend against treachery. You even used the term extremely useful tool. so how can an extremely useful tool ditract from my quality of life? By your logic, it kept people from betraying us, therefore preserving my way of life, so how can it detract from it simulteanously?