When is it ok to hate someone for their politics?

[Lancer]

When their politics advocate murder?

When they disagree with your politics?

When their politicians take your hard earned money?

When their politicians support forced labor?

When their politics advocate taking your property and distributing it to 'the people'?

When is it ok to hate for political reasons? How about dislike?

[Vince278]

Is this another Bush thread?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Simple: when their politics are motivated by hate.

This is why it's never okay to hate liberals; we ourselves don't hate -- because we don't have the balls to.

[Japher]

or when their politics motivate haters

[Q Classic]

I say it's completely okay to hate someone for their politics, if you're a douchebag.

Otherwise, never.

See, you're otherwise with us, as a sane, rational member of the people who understands that hate and hyperbole is rarely truthful or truthy, or you're against us, and a total numbnuts who'll believe any talking head on the telly.

[Fake Boris]

i take it that no one should hate hitler?

[Slaughtermeyer]

The question should be should we hate the overwhelming majority of Germans who supported Hitler.

[Drake Tungsten]

This is why it's never okay to hate liberals; we ourselves don't hate

[Lorizael]

Uh. Hate is stupid.

[Ned]

Lancer, in another thread I commented on the recent episode of 24 where the show's main character was just about to kill the president of the United States. I hadn't seen earlier shows to see why the main character would go so far, but I was shocked by the program. It actually seemed to be saying that assassinating the president can be, at times, OK.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Ned
Lancer, in another thread I commented on the recent episode of 24 where the show's main character was just about to kill the president of the United States. I hadn't seen earlier shows to see why the main character would go so far, but I was shocked by the program. It actually seemed to be saying that assassinating the president can be, at times, OK.

Yeah, when the President is committing treason (ie, planning to use WMD on his own country for political gain)!

[Q Classic]

Imran, don't parrot evil lefty tripe. You stand behind our president, no matter the cost.

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Q Classic]

Look, there's always a reason for the president to nuke his own country. Mitigating factors. He must be operating under some information you don't know--as in, say a fail-safe fails, and Moscow is destroyed. Now, for political gain/regain, he'll have to nuke NYC.

It's for the good of the country. Don't argue, you commie pinko-leftist.

[Lorizael]

Richard Dreyfuss for President! (Or Henry Fonda)