I hate people who say that if you're against war, you want our troops to die. This is just a fallacy. My best friend is a marine who speaks arabic. I'm against the war because I DON'T want him to die, and I feel that we're putting him in position to do that for no direct benefit to our country.
I hate people who feel they need to prove their patriotism and loyalty to me. This is not a pissing contest. Nobody's going to deport you for being a little skeptical or for having an original opinion -- we haven't gone that far into "1984" yet. And putting a yellow ribbon or a flag or a picture of a fireman on your car is nothing more than fluff. If you want to support police and firemen, volunteer to fight fires, donate to the benevolency society. If you want to support our troops, make damn sure they're fighting and dying for the right things by keeping America beautiful, safe and free.
I hate people who believe the government when it says it "has evidence, but can't show you." This is also a fallacy because the government is always trying to show us evidence that they're doing the right thing...and it's often slipshod (think of Clinton's second inauguration with its multicultural Parade of People We Helped).
I hate people who feel angry, sad, happy, nervous, outraged, violated, whatever, merely because they think they should. Emotion is a precious thing but only if it's pure. Homogenizing that shit kills the passion. If you don't feel victimized, don't let anybody tell you to act the victim -- because then you'd be one for sure.
I hate people who don't realize that France, Russia, Germany, China, Australia, Canada, and pretty much the rest of the world has intelligence agencies, too. They aren't as well funded as ours, perhaps, but they sure as hell aren't in rags. If we have intelligence, it stands to reason THEY have the same intelligence, as evidenced by the cold war. And if they look at the intelligence, and make a decision, it is absolutely invalid to say they "don't know what we do" just so we don't have to admit there's little evidence to support our rhetorical bias.
I hate people who tell you that they're conservative, religious, moral and family oriented and then proudly admit they're pro-gun, pro-war, pro-drug war and pro-death penalty. Even though I agree with some of these policies, I think it takes an amazing cretin to clutch a book that says "Thou Shalt Not Kill" and "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself" while talking about hate and violence. It's things like this that cause me to dismiss most religions as "morality shelters" -- institutions people clutch to so they can have an excuse to be bigoted and hateful.
I hate people who can't see the way the world really works because they believe their own hype and rhetoric. Example: it is really illegal to do and sell drugs in this country. You will do serious time if you're caught, and not in some mamby-pamby minimal security white collar joint. They'll have you in Oz without the ruby slippers before you can say William Sessions. And yet, people still do it, because it is easy money or they need an escape. It's pretty obvious that making them more illegal isn't going to make this go away. It's also obvious that "education" isn't helping them go away...shit, the anti drug campaigns at my high school were fairly factual and candid and I don't think it decreased the percentage of kids getting wasted at all. So our drug policy can't work. And yet, we can't reduce any of the funding to these useless programs, because people complain that it will damage "the kids." These are the blind people. "The kids" are already into drugs, maybe even your kids, and no policy or instruction can change that. I don't touch anything stronger than Vitamin C supplements while my brother smoked joints laced with heroin. Same parents. Same instruction. About the same social level. There was obviously something else going on with him. He needed some way to keep him safe while he did this stupid shit, and a reminder that we could get him help when he needed it without reprecussion. Sending him to prison for life helps nobody, and costs us about $35,000 per year. So stop doing it, asshole.
I hate people who can't see the way the world really works because they choose to ignore facts and theories that would invalidate their worldview. A good example is all the people who don't understand science. I identify them by the way they say they don't BELIEVE in evolution, chemistry, etc. What the shit is that? There's nothing to believe when there's hard evidence. Put a grey rat with a white rat and the child is dapple white and grey. Multiply that by 100,000,000 and there's your evolution. Turn on your car. There's chemistry, mechanical and electrical engineering, physics, the preservation of energy, entropy, enthalpy and pretty much anything else you want. There's PROOF, there's nothing to believe. Now turn your car off, take out the key, and start praying for it to start. Does it start? Great, no proof. I guess prayer must be based in BELIEF. Which is why "miracles" are my biggest problem with the Christian bible (#2 is "angels"). For one thing they always seem like superstition tacked on to what is otherwise a tale about a really great guy. For another thing, they invalidate faith because they flat out tell you what to believe. And finally, unless you see them, they're just silly. If a book just told me a guy came back to life and made fish go around real well and such, and it was true story, I would be unimpressd. After all, Whitley Streiber told me that aliens kidnapped a couple and warned them about the coming nuclear war and it was true, too. He even named his book "Communion." I am not impressed by second hand evidence of outrageous claims...I'm inclined to ask the jews and hindus for a little peer review. However, the philosophy of non violence and extreme tolerance and devotion and sacrifice...that's something I can get into. That's the human condition, the heart that validates the science fiction. And I don't see where any of that philosophy expects me to ignore my own eyes, ignore my own deductive reasoning which something (a beneveolent creator, a cunning ordering component of entropy, a stack of turtles) has gifted me with. After all, Thomas had to see the holes in Jesus' hands. Seems to me like the Bible's commanding us to be skeptical.