Are you an enabler of hate?

[Shandris]

31. There -is- a middle ground.

And most people live in it. It starts by recognizing that what gets bandied about as 'hate' a lot of times...isn't. It may be a decision or life direction we disagree with, it may be religious faith we think is silly, outdated, or even stupid, it may be a simple lack of knowledge/information/experience...it may well be a lot of things, but that doesn't make it hate.

Pick you actual battles first and you'll be doing more to end hate than all the confrontational arguments in the nation every single year. There's your middle ground.

Then when you -do- encounter actual hate, try to find a method of engagement that doesn't generate -more- hate. Violence, or 'breaking a few eggs', isn't usually how its done either. To witness this in action, go ask a lifelong Southerner who isn't politically active what they think of the Civil War and how the North handled the end of it. See how well violence 'solved' that hate. It didn't...it 'reunited' the nation and nothing more; only time, temperance, and tolerance have counteracted the actual hate there (and even then, there are substantial pockets of true hate to be found there). At some point you also have to realize that there are some aspects of hate you will simple -never- get rid of. You can't fight a war against an emotion.