Quote Originally Posted by Jason View Post
"Potent" hate also harms the hater.
The claim you made was that hate harms the hater more than the hated.

Quote Originally Posted by Jason View Post
Yes, hate is a motive for hateful acts (obviously), but it is the acts that are doing the harm to others. The same actions with different motives would be just as harmful.
And I would say those different motives are just as relevant. My position is that if someone is driven by some motive to commit intentionally harmful acts, then the motive is also implicated in the harm done, because the acts are an expression of the motive.