Hatred

Recently read a book about Hatred felt by human beings. It is sometimes scary to think about the massacre of the Jews or the suicide bombers being heroes in their group. The book did not take stands as to openly term these monstrous acts as sinful, it explores the reasons why they do such acts. You will be shocked to see that to be green with envy is detrimental to one well's being as mentioned in the book.Instead of the normal view most of us have that envy is nothing more than admiration. The author defined " envy is the bitter and resentful feeling that one has in the presence of and toward the person who is perceived as having traits superior to one's own. He later term envy as an amalgam of at least four different conditions: the first being that of the feeling of deprivation, secondly the feeling of being denied because the things we desire are possessed by others. Thirdly, we have a sense of impotence in the face of disparity.the last condition is we do not have what we desire not just that we do not have it but becasue others have it .

Whoa! Next time, I will use admire instead of envy since it entails so many harmful qualities. I guess the terrorist are not as cocky or daring as they might seem. They are just like us humans, they do those monstrous things is because as the book says they envy the life of the westerners and desire to have that kind of life. Sadly being extremists, they blame the westerners for what they do not have and attempt to take away the comfort and luxury they perceived the westerners are having. Of course, most of the world condemn their acts including myself, I can't forgive them for stirring such a period of fear and unrest these 5 years. I am lucky not to be in a community as them, so I can be on the normal side of the world.

There are just too many variations in human beings that at times, there is no sort of right and wrong in the context of our own community. The book merely include envy as one of the elements of hatred but I choose to see it this way that sane crime doers are full of envy for others. There are other factors such as humilation, anger, rage that are mentioned but the point on envy strikes me best. I am no experts in human behaviour like the author is, it is really beyond me to fully comprehend and accept the reasons behind abnormal behaviour such as extreme hatred. What I can say is I will not be so quick to place judgement in future about certain types of people. Hatred can be so scary! Alright, I end here now.