Hate crime, hate speech, hate as the plague of our times ravaging our networks and tirelessly targeting new victims... What makes it so prevalent? Is hate our natural tendency, an integral part of our most profound social instincts or simply another piece of evidence for the failure at anger management and controlling our hunger for power and influence? Can those who utilize hatred as a smart marketing tool be considered evil? Are those who categorically dismiss it as an untenable social tendency naive idealists or truly wise and virtuous leaders of mankind? What about those who defend it as a righteous fury? Was Aristotle correct in calling hatred noble? Is challenging social ills with negative emotions a legitimate response? This new controversial study on the ethics of hatred - based as much on personal experience and reading of classics as on the most recent affairs such as the War in Ukraine, the abortion debate, and the Capitol Attack - explores the so familiar yet so often misunderstood topic of ill-will. Trying to crack the code of whether hatred can be justified, and whether those afflicted by it can ever be free, it offers a fresh individual perspective on one of the most troubling and oldest of all human sentiments.