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exactly why. A devil can only be painted from a distance. On closer inspection, it may not be so dark (or red). It is well known that the human features of the object of hatred must therefore be eliminated. Creation (heaven, earth, light, darkness) was named by God and all creatures by man. And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. (Gen.2.19.) Their names must therefore be taken from them. We have to turn them into data, because a number is not a person. Numbers can be hated; in fact, they can be erased. There are two kinds of hate: 2.1 territorial or 2.2 generic. 2.1 Territorial hate can be ended if the one I hate and do not communicate with goes somewhere else. History has numerous examples for this, such as the liquidation of nations and groups for territorial reasons. Genocide against Armenians, Kurds, etc. were of this nature. When they left the territory someone else claimed, they could escape. The pogroms against Russian Jews were like this. Those who emigrated from these zones to find a new home were not chased down by Cossacks seeking to exterminate them at all costs. 2.2 The most obvious example of generic hate was also directed at Jews: The Holocaust. It began as a territorial hate (we need only think of the unfeasible plan to remove all Jews to Madagascar). It only later became generic. It did not matter where the Jews were, they had to be hated. It made no difference whether they left or not, they had to be hated. They had to be exterminated
