This is because watching you succeed makes them feel inferior, insecure and unworthy. When a person who hates you sees you doing something that they wanted to do but couldn’t or can’t, they may try to stop you or slow you down. What does hatred do to a person?Ī hater hates because their psychological stability has been disturbed and, by hating, they manage to restore it. On the other hand, he might feel okay when he deals with average students because they pose no threat to his goals. When you say that you hate someone, it simply means you see that person as a threat.Ī student who always wants to top in his class may hate his bright classmates and thus feel uncomfortable around them. Had he been good at maths or perhaps found his math teacher interesting, his mind would’ve found it unnecessary to generate hatred. This motivates him to stay away from maths. Maths causes him such psychological discomfort that his mind is forced to launch the emotion of hatred as a pain-avoidance mechanism. His mind, as a defence against this pain, generates the feelings of hatred in him so that he’s motivated to avoid maths. What we’re concerned with, and know for sure, is that math is painful to this student. Maybe he isn’t good at it or that his math teacher is boring- we’re not concerned with why he hates math. Hatred motivates this person to avoid X, a potential source of pain.įor example, when a student says “I hate maths”, it means math is a potential or actual source of pain for this student.

So when a person says “I hate X” (X can be anything- a person, place or even an abstract idea), it means X has the potential to cause pain to them. We’re all naturally motivated towards pleasure and away from pain. The feelings of hatred are there to motivate us to move away or avoid the people or things we believe have the potential of causing us pain. Hatred is an emotion we experience when we feel someone or something is a threat to our happiness, success, and well-being. In this article, we’ll explore the nature of hatred, causes of hatred, and how a hater’s mind works.

HATE #1 by Peter Bagge