Indifference instead of hate

In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare


People are used to say that they hate something if they just strongly dislike it, are frightened or just don't understand it. Several days ago, word 'hate' was very popular here in Belgrade. There were groups which expressed their hate by beating foreign tourists, the same groups threatened they will beat homosexuals as well...Once more, ignorance won.Those people who had different opinion used the word 'hate' in an attempt to describe the attackers, 'driven by hate' was the most frequently used phrase. Shakespeare said that 'hate' is just synonym for 'fear' and fear is one of the strongest emotions. Intensity of hate/fear can be compared to intensity of love, and both hate and love can make someone feel really important to himself or herself.
Love is an emotion, hate/fear is an emotion....Indifference, pure and complete indifference is worse because it represents total absence of emotions. Indifference can not feed anybody, nobody can feel more important by ignoring someone...Indifference doesn't radiate anything, it's just lack of feelings - some kind of wide spread emptiness.