Get rid of love?

Vincent J. Curtis

9 May 23

RE: We support Hamilton: Tool for reporting hate incidents launched. By Grant LaFleche.  The Hamilton Spectator 9 May 23.

Would you get rid of love?  If you could change human nature, would get rid of love and replace it with indifference?  Hate is as much a part of human nature as love is; hate being the opposite of love.  You can think of replacing hatred with its opposite, love; but to eliminate hatred would involve the destruction of love.

So, why would someone publicly preen themselves on their desire to eliminate hatred?  Moral narcissism springs to mind.  Perhaps self-interest lies invisible beneath the righteous rhetoric.  But a basic understanding of human nature will tell you that eliminating hatred is impossible.  The best we can do is keep the temperature cool so that passion doesn’t propel violence.

You can’t keep temperatures cool when you’re harping at the moral turpitude of your subject.  Patronizing, you get on their nerves when you get in their faces, and that provokes a response.

Dr. Kassia Johnson can send her medical degree and her diagnosis that Hamilton is sick from hatred to the college of quackery.  She must lack for patients, so she’s the senior medical director of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) for Hamilton Health Sciences.  Anti-racism is her cause: she hates racists.  Does she really think a snitch line and moralistic castigation is going to heal the serious differences between Sunni and Shia?  Would the Arian heresy, a serious and violent disagreement over the nature of the Holy Trinity which raged for centuries, have been settled in this way?  Of course not.

Journalist Michael Schellenberger observes that elites manufacture a fake “hate crisis” as a pretext for mass spying, blacklists, and censorship.  And here is a snitch line.

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