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Jay520 on 25 June 2012
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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Jay520 said:
Well, the1, how do you suggest we judge people if not by their actions?

I say we can like, dislike, love, hate whoever we want if we base these feelings off their actions. Should we act off of these feelings? No, I'm not saying that.

If there's someone who always steals your lunch money, it's okay to dislike him. And if he always rapes children, then it'll be okay to extremely dislike him. And extreme dislike is hate. And it makes sense in this case.

You seem to imply our feelings for others should not be based off their actions. So what should they be based off of?


Did I? All I did was saying that I don't hate the individual, but its actions. An individual makes actions based on stored experiences from the past. I may hate those experiences which made him do it, and I may hate the things that he do, but I won't hate him for acting according to how his surroundings made him act. That makes no sense.



You say you may hate his experiences and you may hate his actions. Therefore, you should hate the person as well. Why? Because the person is not separate from his actions or his experiences. His experiences/actions make him who he is. A person is a outcome of his experiences, correct? So if you hate the person's experiences, then surely you must hate the outcome of it.

And why don't you associate a person with his actions? Actions are the only thing that characterizes a person. A person's experiences, genetics, actions, & the person itself all act as one system. And the person is dependent upon his experiences & genetics. So if you hate a person's experiences and genetics, then sure you must hate the person too, because a person is the product of those two things.

Think of it like this. Lets say experiences = A. And genetics = B. Therefore a person = A+B. That is the combination that dictates a person's character. So if you hate A+B, wouldn't you also hate the outcome of A+B? And the outcome of A+B = the person. Therefore, you must logically hate the person as well because he is the product of two things you hate.