Thinking....

Growing up, my folks taught me to fight fair.

They also taught me that a lot of other folks won't. There's really not much you can do about cheaters, in the short run.

So.... When I started to learn actual history, I grew to have a distaste for those who look for the good features of folks, and try to attack them in the areas those good things open up.

So I dislike folks who are maybe ten years older than me, and have "Vietnam Vet, Can't Work" signs on the side of the freeway. They are preying on charity.

I dislike con-artists who set up things "for the troops"-- especially if they target the grieving.

I dislike the poisonous spiders who target the elderly, going in to "take care of them"-- around whom jewelry, electronics and anything else of value "just vanishes," and whom end up as the sole beneficiary of the wills.

I really, really dislike those who use even the utterly BS, but possibly well meaning works of things like the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission to attack someone who has been attacked by racists.

Jeeze, guys, why don't you go watch the first Spiderman movie where there's a bus full of kids vs Mary Jane?

Shoot, I can't even like Ghandi because of the back-alley garbage of using the Brit's distaste for harming those who won't fight back against them.

This might actually be a rather reasonable view-- the first thing that happens when you use someone's good nature against them is that said good nature tends to go away....