Talk:"Hate"/@comment-10502460-20180210032816

It doesn't really make sense to me for the doctors to diagnose him with an unidentified mental disorder simply because he can't identify the emotion of "hate". Considering that many if not most people go through life without ever having people they consider to "hate", and considering that humans have been trying to define "hate" for thousands of years and that "hate" is a subjective term that the medical community probably can't define, it just seems bizarre.

If he just killed the kids, then I would think the doctors would at first just assume that either A, he killed them either in self-defense or second-degree murder after understandable provocation and just didn't want to admit to remembering it or B, he was attacked, feared for his life, his survival instinct took control, he killed them, then repressed the memory.

And if he did something more messed up than just killing them, they would not just discharge him from the hospital, and I still don't see why they would invent a new type of mental illness based on that single criterion of not being able to articulate "hate".