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Ordinary vices discusses some more destructive states: cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy.
I'm intrigued by the point that if you hate cruelty, you pretty much end up hating the human race.
You can hate cruelty without hating the people who cause it
Yes, St. Augustine mentioned something about that.
Maybe you can. I don't seem to be able to manage it.
And you can hate people causing cruelty without hating cruelty itself (in the sense of cruelty present in a society). One can accept some amount of cruelty as part of the human condition. I can. I mean I do not generically hate people who are cruel as long as I do not know why they are ruel I give them the benefit of the doubt. They may see themselves as the hero of their own story e.g. avenging some wrong or affectfully leashing out. Which I do not condone but which is not bad enough for me to hate.
Well, I'm guilty of 2.5 of those.