| I thought I would take one more run at explaining my position. I take it that when people care about something, they have an emotional reaction. When they perceive the thing they are reacting to negatively, for example, the killing of thousands of innocent people in a lurid manner, they have a negative emotional reaction. Of course, grief for those killed, and for the survivors is natural, as is horror at the sheer enormity. However, when we have such negative feelings directed at those we blame for the evil that has occurred, the sentiment is one of hostility, of hatred, anger, and/or implacable belligerence. That seems to me to be how it works. Thus, if one has no form of hostility, one either does not care much in the first place, or does not blame much in the end. Does this seem a terribly mistaken way of viewing the matter? If so, why? |
