Hatred and Envy Yields Libel and Slander!

“Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?” Proverbs 27:4

Why are some people filled with hatred and envy? It seems that anyone who would become successful in life becomes a target of failures and ne’er-do-wells. In order to bring you down to their levels many hateful individuals will resort to any manoeuver including propaganda, libel, slander, and outright lies. The terms for these evil overtures are, libel if printed, and slander if spoken. Warren Buffet says it takes twenty years to build a good reputation and only five minutes to destroy it. In this modern day of internet obfuscation and pseudo names, libelous statements can be posted with seeming impunity! Or; is this true? No; because eventually these hateful envious people can be caught and prosecuted. There is a line in the First Amendment to the Constitution that cannot be crossed. Not everything said or published is protected under the free speech clause. What is hatred and what kind of person(s) publish hateful libelous statements or make slanderous statements. First, these kinds of people are considered to be low rent in stature, mostly losers and failures. Maybe a definition would help to explain hatred and the mental state of hateful people?

1. “Hatred is clearly and most obviously an emotion, an intense emotion, that is, a passion. To better understand hatred, it is helpful to have some sophisticated understanding of human emotions—the irrational underpinnings of human behavior and the darker side of the human spirit.

2. Hatred is more than an emotion. It is also a psychological condition; a disorder of perception; a form of quasi- delusional thinking. Therefore, to understand the condition of hatred, one must understand the nature of a delusion, a symptom of severe mental disease. One must examine the meaning of the paranoid shift that is central to the thinking of a hating individual and a culture of hatred. This examination will lead us into the somewhat bizarre world of symptom formation.

3. Finally, hatred requires an attachment. Like love, it needs an object. The choice of an object—also like love—may be rational or irrational. Obsessive hatred is by definition irrational. The choice of the victim is more often dictated by the unconscious needs and the personal history of the hater than by the nature, or even the actions, of the hated.”

HATRED: The Psychological Descent into Violence
WILLARD GAYLIN, M.D. (2003)

Notice point number two. Hatred is a form of “a severe mental disease.” And, it usually needs an object to focus that hatred on! And if that is someone of any success or of high moral standards (above their own), they will try and destroy the object (person(s)) of their hatred. And they will use low level subversive tactics to propagate their vitriolic slander. And, they will post libelous statements under pseudonyms on any low level website forum(s) they can find that will allow it! One should never believe everything you hear or read! In legal processes, evidences are presented to condemn or to exonerate anyone accused of a crime. However, in the minds of people filled with hatred and envy, it doesn’t matter! It is how they see it that matters in their demented little world! Here is what Plutarch, On ‘Envy and Hate’ has to say.

“[1] Envy and hatred are passions so like each other that they are often taken for the same. And generally, vice has (as it were) many hooks, whereby it gives unto those passions that hang thereto many opportunities to be twisted and entangled with one another; for as differing diseases of the body agree in many like causes and effects, so do the disturbances of the mind. He who is in prosperity is equally an occasion of grief to the envious and to the malicious man; therefore we look upon benevolence, which is a willing our neighbor’s good, as an opposite to both envy and hatred, and fancy these two to be the same because they have a contrary purpose to that of love. But their resemblances make them not so much one as their unlikeness makes them distinct. Therefore we endeavor to describe each of them apart, beginning at the original of either passion.

[2] Hatred proceeds from an opinion that the person we hate is evil, if not generally so, at least in particular to us. For they who think themselves injured are apt to hate the author of their wrong; yea, even those who are reputed injurious or malicious to others than ourselves we usually nauseate and abhor. But envy has only one sort of object, the felicity of others. Whence it becomes infinite, and, like an evil or diseased eye, is offended with everything that is bright. On the other hand, hatred is always determined by the subject it adheres to.” (Plutarch circa 45 – 125 C.E.) Priest of the Delphic Oracle.

Many criminal acts are perpetrated because of hate and envy, murder being one of the primary crimes committed. And it becomes even worse if the crime is pre-meditated! And hatred and envy can be expanded by demented individuals to commit this heinous act! Consider the following passage from the Bible whence the precedent for the pre-meditated murder concept originates. “And if a man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes his life from him, so that he dies, and flees to one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and bring from him there, and give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.” Deuteronomy 19:11-13. And, you had better believe that some people are so filled with hatred that they would actually murder the object(s) of their hatred and envy should the opportunity present itself! And they lay in wait lurking on the internet forums expressing their hate and evil desires for innocent people! Thus, the hatred and envy concept/emotion when played out to the fullest evil extent can and will bring death! “For he knew they delivered Him up through envy.” Matthew 27:18 And thus it was said of a man known as the Messiah! This is where envy and hatred ultimately leads.