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UPSC 2022 GS-IV · 10 marks · 150 words

'Hatred is destructive of a person's wisdom and conscience that can poison a nation's spirit.' Do you agree with this view? Justify your answer.

What “Justify” demands

argue positively for the stated position with evidence, and meet the obvious objection.

The characteristic failure: presenting both sides neutrally when a defence was asked for.

What a top answer must contain

These are the checkable specifics from the marking standard for this question — the actual case, committee, datum or thinker, not an instruction to “give examples”.

  • Individual level: hatred narrows cognition, rationalises cruelty, silences conscience via dehumanisation
  • Nation level: partition violence, Rwanda, lynch-mob virality — hatred as destroyer of social capital
  • Engage the counter: moral anger at injustice differs from hatred (Ambedkar's channelled indignation)
  • Antidotes with anchors: contact theory, empathy education, 'hate the sin not the sinner', Lincoln's 'malice toward none'

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