Ask those who hate.
I don't have any interest in hating.
I have seen too much of what happens when hate comes into play.
Syria being one huge example of a place where dislike, and/or jealousy, and/or poverty, and/or envy, and/or suspicion, and/or ignorance, and/or religion has been manipulated - especially by radical rebel groups - to turn people first into haters and then into killers and then into casualties.
Mothers have told me about what happened to their sons, brothers/sisters have told me about what happened to their brothers, wives have told me about what happened to their husbands.
I have watched as Syrian towns across the border were attacked and bombed, and where civilians - men, women, and children - were killed, wounded, and forced to flee their homes - their lives destroyed, all done by people who had been filled with hate.
I have watched as Syrian women and children carefully, hesitantly, fearfully, visibly shaking with fear walked through minefields - with each second seeming to last a year - because they were fleeing from people who had been filled with hate.
I have seen too much of what hate can do.
I have seen too much of what hate can do.
I have seen too much of what hate can do.
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Thanks to MikeCA for the question which inspired me to write this.
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