Hostility, terrorism, and capital crime still corrupt man's quality of life. In trying to analyze, or even reconcile, the aggressive or hostile behavior of one person to another, or of one group to another, investigators and authors have cast their findings and arguments into the sphere of objectivity--only to find that subjectivity itself infuses nebulous terminology, a reliance on 'judgment,' and validation only in outcome and not in process. The quest here is to show that hatred is a legitimate emotion for study, that it has historical and philosophical grounds for that legitimacy, and that its study is important to the furtherance of the quality of life. Behavior itself can be measured and analyzed objectively; the motivation behind that behavior, however, whether of terrorism, child abuse, or the setting of policy for international relations, rests in the subjective sphere and thus necessitates newer approaches to analysis
