Is it right to hate Adam Lanza?

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Hate is a feeling and there are no right or wrong feelings. There are only right or wrong actions. There are beneficial and nonbeneficial feelings, there are healthy and unhealthy feelings, there are logical and illogical feelings, but until you act on something, your feelings are neither right nor wrong.

Feelings are also subjective, so what would be considered the "normal" feelings in one situation would be "abnormal" in another situation. If I had a young child that was attacked and killed by a roving band of rabid kittens then it would be normal for me to hate kittens. If I was Hitler's mother then it would be normal for me to love Hitler.

Feelings are also things that a person can't control, so to assign a right or wrong to them would be arbitrary.

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I don't hate him, but I don't feel sorry for him - it would be easier for me to sympathize if he had tried to get help rather than hurting others.

But I don't think it's healthy that people have such a need to find someone to blame for tragedy. Yes, he pulled the trigger and if anyone is directly to blame it is him. But we also need to consider what might have driven him to do that. People don't just randomly start killing people. There's a reason for it. We may never know what that reason was, but I can't see that heaping every evil thought onto him as if he were the devil incarnate is going to help anything in the long run.

Given that his behaviour, like everyone else's, is just a product of nature & nurture, it would be highly illogical to hate him. Given what he did I suspect he didn't have a happy life, which I think is sad. So is what he did and the effect that has had on people's view of autism. Naturally we as a society should seek to prevent these sort of things from happening by any means of which the price isn't worse than the gain.
Hate does not enter the picture for me here or anywhere else. It's an illogical and useless emotion that just makes people irrational and dangerous, as evidenced by the article in that other thread about a boy getting beaten up and other incidents. Hatred I think is not an emotion that should exist.

It’s easier to hate what we don’t understand when it comes to the dreadful actions of others such as Adam Lanza.

We have miles to go when it comes understanding what makes an individual tick. understanding is the solution to all problems...How else do we prevent such hideous acts against each other, hating someone doesn’t help?

Although I do kind of feel sorry for him, what he did was absolutely disgusting and unforgivable, and now, we are suffering the terrible repercussions of his actions, which, admittedly is the fault of the ignorant NTs discriminating against us, but I am seriously upset and pissed off.