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Happy birthday! Hope you've had an awesome day and that the rest of your year is fantastic!

Hope you're having a great day!!

And as usual, I type a long response while the forum thread is being closed.

Here is what I was going to say in response to your last post:

Unless you are being manipulated by brain control technology, then yes, you are responsible for liking what you like, even if the preference has an unconscious or genetic origin.

What I mean about justification not being required is that hate, as a genuine emotional response, is not a logical thought process based on analysis of empirical data. It is a neuro-chemical reaction. Demanding that people defend their hatred with logic is counter productive and, in my mind, counter intuitive.  You can be asked to defend a specific belief. Example, I hate X because I believe Y. Perhaps Y is an erroneous belief. But if Y is factually true, you cannot objectively say that "reason Y is not justification for hating X". You cannot justify emotional reactions.