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Yes, I admitted that there is also indifference, and that sometimes it pains us to do it. But I think for the most part, hatred is at the source of the push to war—sometimes it's the start of it, sometimes it's a response to it.
Sometimes it's fabricated. Sometimes it's automatic. Either way, if we hate our enemies, we will want to vanquish them.
Take islamofascists/terrorists, for example: it's easy to hate them, right?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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