> I want to talk about hate from a purely scientific perspective.
> The reason hate exists is to encourage us to punish parasites who try to erode social trust by stealing from us instead of cooperating with us.
Um, I would point to that other post where you distinguish "science and scientism" (https://questioner.substack.com/p/trust-the-experts?s=r). It's all well and good to offer a hypothesis for why hate exists, but it seems not to be more than a hypothesis.
This hypothesis doesn't seem useful to your position, either. Hate isn't good because it's natural (that would be a naturalistic fallacy) or because it evolved for a reason.
And I don't agree that "If people lost the ability to hate others, society would most likely collapse within a generation, since nobody would get punished". No, we can decide to punish for reasons other than hate (and often, but not always, we can even get the results we want without punishment). For instance, we can support punishments as a deterrent to prevent things we dislike, such as punishing fraud because we don't like losing our stuff. It's not even necessary to "hate" losing my stuff; it could be that I'm sad about it, or stressed out, or worried about the consequences, or hungry because I can't afford food now.
There are people who insist "I don't hate the person who wronged me". These people would probably still take steps to avoid being wronged again.
> I want to talk about hate from a purely scientific perspective.
> The reason hate exists is to encourage us to punish parasites who try to erode social trust by stealing from us instead of cooperating with us.
Um, I would point to that other post where you distinguish "science and scientism" (https://questioner.substack.com/p/trust-the-experts?s=r). It's all well and good to offer a hypothesis for why hate exists, but it seems not to be more than a hypothesis.
This hypothesis doesn't seem useful to your position, either. Hate isn't good because it's natural (that would be a naturalistic fallacy) or because it evolved for a reason.
And I don't agree that "If people lost the ability to hate others, society would most likely collapse within a generation, since nobody would get punished". No, we can decide to punish for reasons other than hate (and often, but not always, we can even get the results we want without punishment). For instance, we can support punishments as a deterrent to prevent things we dislike, such as punishing fraud because we don't like losing our stuff. It's not even necessary to "hate" losing my stuff; it could be that I'm sad about it, or stressed out, or worried about the consequences, or hungry because I can't afford food now.
There are people who insist "I don't hate the person who wronged me". These people would probably still take steps to avoid being wronged again.