Not Love, Not Hatred

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington

Lack of love does not kill people. Hatred does. The problem with people trying to teach equality, acceptance, and all that jazz, is that they preach that loving one another will solve everything. However, not loving someone does not kill anyone. Hatred does, and then some more.

In the recent Orlando shooting, people think that messages of love are ideal. While fitting and seemingly appropriate, they are not a solution. Thoughts of tolerance and acceptance rarely have fixed things in the past. Nor will they likely ever fix problems in the future.

The problem at hand is, you cannot force people to love someone. Furthermore, you shouldn’t force people to love each other. That is a recipe for disaster. Even the law system knows that it is a bad idea. You cannot force acts of good will. However, what you can do, is stop people from bad acts of will.

Setting aside all thoughts of terrorism and other such things, the matter that caused the shootings was hatred. The man that did the shootings, he was angry, and hated the world. Hatred is a strong emotion, and many people have it. However, although people have hatred, not all of them actually enact on it.

Which brings me to my point. You cannot force love, but you can restrain hatred. People preach messages of loving and accepting every walks of life. While utopia sounding, it’s unrealistic. People should talk about, how we can just get along so we don’t kill each other. 

The world is safer place if people have their hatred, but they deal with it. They either get rid of it, or they control themselves. Messages of love don't solve the hatred issue, because forcing someone to love, is not loving to them. Furthermore, it will not solve the hatred that they feel.

In addition, these messages of forcing love or other people’s opinions can only create more hatred. People do not like being coerced to doing things. Rather, we should be focusing on the real problem. People need to have more control, not more love. 

If we cannot love, we can at least control our hatred. The crux of the matter is that while you can learn to love one person, it does not mean that you have learnt to love everyone. However with hate, once you have learnt to control it, you can do so with everyone, because hate is hate, and love is not love.

Love is an answer to solving things, but you cannot force love. However, hatred for people is not ideal either. Nevertheless, not everything in this world is ideal. Looking at how much anger there is, we cannot expect people to love. However, we can expect to teach people, or introduce ideals so they can control their feelings.