Some time ago I made a statement verifying that while people may want to hate something or someone from time to time, it is better, and perfectly acceptable, to dislike instead. An opinion came to me that the two words mean the same thing and that the latter is merely a sugar coating. With the following analogy I shall try to clarify the difference I see between dislike and hatred:
Imagine with me, if you will, a family gathered together around a table for an evening meal.
Among the many platters being passed around the table is a bowl full of chili peppers. Because I dislike chili peppers I have no desire to eat them or to have them affect the tastes of other foods on my plate, and so I pass the bowl right along to the next person without taking anything from it. The family meal continues without interruption.
Were I to hate chili peppers I imagine I would lift up the whole table with a type of herculean strength that only rage can empower and chuck it into the nearest wall all for the sole purpose of destroying that single bowl of chili peppers. In doing this and in its aftermath I would have no concern for the fact that my act had ruined everyone else’s meal.
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