All humans are born with a conscience. However, they're also born innocent, thuis their conscience doesn't bother them. It's when one does wrong (in their mind) that their conscience kicks in. As a child grows, it learns what's considered right and what's considered wrong (although sometimes these can get mixed up due to bad teaching). By adulthood (no specific age) just about everyone knows what is right and what is wrong (e.g. murder is wrong, stealing is wrong, helping another person is right, honesty is right). However it is up to the individual whether or not they do it. If one knows something to be wrong and yet does it, their conscience will make them feel guilty. However, if they ignore their conscience and continue to go against it, eventually it will stop working (a seared conscience). Note - consciences are NOT infallible!!
Hatred is extreme dislike. Everyone dislikes something (Brussels sprouts, snoring, being too cold or hot, etc.). We may even say we hate these things. We have a choice whether to live with these things, avoid them or change them to suit us. If we can't change them then we must either avoid them or learn to live with them. It's possible that we may come to like them later on in our life.
Everybody dislikes something about another person (they snore too loud, they don't do/act like we think they should, etc.). What we do with that "disapproval" is completely up to us (our "determination"). We can live with these things, avoid them or change them to suit us.
Hatred can stem from prejudice, distrust, or misconceptions (among other things).
Everyone is different. Whether it's their skin color, religion, body shape, voice, language, ideology, politics, or whatever. Prejudice is pre judging. When we're prejudice against another person we are judging someone before we even get to know them (individually). For example, one may say that all people with a certain color of skin are inferior; or that all people form a certain country are criminals. Granted they may have come across one or 2 individuals who fit that profile,but does that make everyone else who resembles them (in any way) just as bad? Have you ever met a person who was good to you? Would everyone who resembled that person (in any way) automatically be good?
As with everything we "dislike" we have a choice - we can live with these them, avoid them or change them to suit us. Since it's impossible to change another person.many people develop a hatred for that person. Unlike simple dislike, hatred,when left unchecked, grows. Like a disease it spreads from person to person. Eventually, many hate others but don't actually know exactly why (perhaps something that happened years and years earlier, perhaps to someone we never even knew). If someone were to say to you, "I hate you", how would that make you feel? Sad (what'd I do?)? Angry (screw you!)? Vengeful (well, I hate you too!)?
It's not one's conscience that hates, nor can one's conscience warn them that they are hating. A conscience can only alert one that they are doing something they know to be wrong. Hatred isn't a "wrong" to be corrected, it's a construct that's rooted deep in one's heart (the seat of their being). One can have a very sharp conscience and still hate.
There are over 7 billion people on this planet. Out of that 7 billion I guarantee you that at least 100 of them constantly do something that really annoys you. At least 100 more don't fit what you think of as "normal". I also guarantee you that there's at least one person out there that you ... hate. We cant change others. We cant make them stop hating, stop fighting, stop hurting others. We can only change ourselves. So that leaves us with just 2 choices - live peaceably with others, or avoid them. Kind of hard to avoid 7 billion other people for a lifetime. However, we can refuse to allow their hatred spread to us. How each individual responds to the others around them will either help hone their conscience or help to sear it.
Conscience (which is not infallible as you say) is the last judgment of the practical intellect before one acts---thus the importance of formation of conscience.
Shame involves the feelings you have when you break society's norms. Guilt involves what you feel when you violate your personal principles.
Aren't Sociopaths conscience-free Shuhak? Don't we all have certain mental dysfunctions that either mitigate or exacerbate what we do, think, feel? If someone were to say "I hate you" I have no idea how I'd react in the moment. The first thing that came to mind would be to say "I'm sorry you feel that way". I don't believe in revenge or retaliation. I might remain silent and say nothing. I will give you an example of something that recently occurred. I think it's relevant. A long-ago Answerbag pal from whom I hadn't heard in years showed up and answered a question. It started out just swell. But as I continued reading he was excoriating me for all the "vicious" questions I ask. Obviously he is a trumpican and during prior conversations years ago there was no super don so politics never came up. I did not read the rest of it. When I got to part that was his reason for writing I stopped reading. I told him I would not respond in kind in honor of the past friendship we had shared. I thanked him for the good times and wished him well. He occasionally shows up to answer a question and I simply ignore him. I shall never read anything he writes to me again for I cannot trust him. That's what I do. I simply stop engaging. I'm here to enjoy myself, ask questions, chat with folks, learn about things I didn't know. He did say that he would show up from time to prop up the right because he said it seems under-represented. I don't know if that is true or false since all I do is ask questions and reply to answers. I don't go out of my little space to explore what's going on around me. I don't know what's going on elsewhere on Answermug. So I have found that for me avoidance is my cuppa tea. I am not obligated to read everything everyone writes. I see no reason to spend time with someone who makes me feel bad or sad or angry. I got that off my chest but did I answer your question? I don't enjoy hostility or belligerence or skirmishes. I like to talk to folks with whom I disagree as long as it is always civil. What is right for some isn't for others. What is right for trumpicans is terribly wrong for the rest of us. Who is right? I guess we are the only arbiters of what is right for us. I am appalled at a lot of what goes on in the name of "patriotism". I am appalled at what people support that harms others and diminishes them and damages them. The hordes of people, all trumpicans, who don't seem to mind thousands of children living in kennels and cages separated from their parents. Their conscience does not bother them at all. They feel it is just and right and the more tent cities the better. It's a crazy world and I think it is just getting crazier. There is an extreme right-wing disease overtaking the world where tough guys and dictator despots are winning. Why that is I don't know but it is very scary. I do hate one person. The super don. Never thought I'd hate anyone but I do despise him. I don't think too much of those who adoringly worship him. SIGH. Different strokes. Thank you for your thoughtful reply and Happy Wednesday! :)
Shuhak 