So, for the past few months, in fact, it feels like maybe even a year, I've been getting a brand new set of morals. I feel like a completely new person. I've always been analyze-like, but lately I've been extra observing. I've been able to read people's minds through their actions and wordplay, and it has had many benefits, especially having been in my first year of high school, it helped me determine who were my new friends, and who were my "enemies" so to say. It's always been very effective with the ladies :). I've never truly had too much luck with girls until high school, but I've already had four girlfriends since November, so I can tell this is working quite nicely.

Anyway, away from my personal life. I've also been feeling a lot more estranged from society, and see what I consider "flaws". Such as the feeling of hatred. When Osama Bin Laden died, everybody was happy and joyful over his death. I was relieved that he was gone, but I didn't feel happy over his death. Even though he was portrayed as an evil, wicked being, I felt some shred of sympathy because he was still a human being who was murdered. I'm much more uncomfortable with the words "gay" and "retard" being used as insults, and I'm shocked by all the violence in the media and entertainment industries that may as well be the cause of these "flaws".

I understand that hatred is naturally, and that people feel it over the heavy dislike of something negative, but is it "okay" to feel hatred? Should we try to get along and manage to somehow cope in an orderly fashion, or let our emotions out? Just because somebody wronged you, does it make you right to avenge yourself, and/or wish them pain?

Hatred is justifiable, but I think acting on hatred is most likely a bad idea. I try not to "hate" really, to be tolerant, but on the flip-side intolerance is something I do hate. Intolerance and ignorance. I'm not sure I would even call that hatred though.

Just saw American History X the other day, and in that you can almost understand where these intolerant people are coming from... Until you scratch beneath the surface and realise that a lot of it really is just ignorance. Too many people have rock solid ideals that don't come from any rationality or reason, but from an ingrained ideology. That's something you really can't fix in most people.

If you hate someone, it's probably because you hate one thing about them, which you then equate to the person as a whole. Just because somebody is a dumb jock (or whatever) on the surface, doesn't mean they are irredeemable human beings. A few years after I got out of high school I began to realise that most people are on some level perfectly pleasant. Hating somebody is kind of a waste of energy because you can't change who people are.

Yeah, hatred is great

To me, hatred is an opinion and everyone has one.