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This section explores issues of the destructive power of hate and its role in exposing its bearers to manipulation.

Hate
Hate is an irrational, emotional desire for harm to come to someone in an aggressive response to a stimulus.

The stimulus is usually an actual or perceived impediment to achieving a personal objective, such as power (in a relationship or a group), wealth, status, personal security or natural justice. Occasionally, it is a reaction to an intense dislike caused by association with another person or circumstance or without foundation.

Examples
Aggressive desire to protect oneself in response to fear arising from a real or perceived threat physically or materially or to ones lifestyle or values.

Aggressive desire to remedy a perceived natural injustice such as jealousy, humiliation, low self-worth, insulting behaviour, boredom or specific injustice.

Irrationality
Hate provokes an angry and often violent response. A dimension of hate involves irrational aggression - "an eye for an eye" is a self-perpetuating code of conduct that results in a lot of partially sighted people, with very little appropriate evaluation in advance of the respective benefits and costs of such behaviour.


Group Hatred
Seven stages of group hatred

1. Hater gatherer
   Entice others to join hatred
   
   
2. Hate group defines itself
   Symbols, rituals, naming of group, setting of group values
   
   
3. Hate group degrades the target
   Create artificial attributes to a target group of individuals (stereotyping, scapegoating)
   Denigrate the attributes
   Break distinction between individuals within the group and the group itself (objectify or dehumanise individuals)
   
   
4. Taunt the target
   Racial slurs
   
   
5. Attack of target without weapons
   
   
6. Attack of target with weapons
   
   
7. Destruction of target