If you are talking about victory and defeat, then love really has no place in the discussion. What we usually mean when we say love defeats hate is lets love ourselves more and that will defeat the people we hate.
That's an all-too-familiar lat-1960's attitude, which ended up backfiring, in no small ways. We're still feeling the affects of that now, decades later.
Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, if we tolerate the intolerant, eventually they will win out and there will be no tolerance for anyone. Therefore to promote tolerance, we must "...claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."
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Thoughts & prayers. Only love
Thoughts & prayers. Only love can defeat hate.
'Only love can defeat hate'?
'Only love can defeat hate'? Did you miss all the Confederacy discussion yesterday?
Then shouldn't we think and pray
for the guy who did it?
Let me guess
You are one of the people who thinks it is just grand to plow over protesters with cars.
Love Trumps Hate
If you are talking about victory and defeat, then love really has no place in the discussion. What we usually mean when we say love defeats hate is lets love ourselves more and that will defeat the people we hate.
'Only love can defeat hate'
Tell that to his five dead friends.
I bet
If you had they stitched onto the side of you "pussy hat" all of the world problems disappear!
"Only love can defeat hate"?
That's an all-too-familiar lat-1960's attitude, which ended up backfiring, in no small ways. We're still feeling the affects of that now, decades later.
Calling Dr. Popper...
Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, if we tolerate the intolerant, eventually they will win out and there will be no tolerance for anyone. Therefore to promote tolerance, we must "...claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."