“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each [one's] life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Just musing.

One reason as to why we are scared of the dark, is that we know the world to be hostile. Not being able to see the hostility makes it even more real. 

Hostility breeds pessimism breeds fear. 

Try asking the most optimistic person you know if they were or are scared of the dark. Likely less optimistic than you think.

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Children Learn What They Live By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

“Individualism, united with altruism, has become the basis of our western civilization. It is the central doctrine of Christianity "love thy neighbor" say the Scripture, not "love your tribe"; and it is the core of all ethical doctrines which have grown from our civilization and stimulated it... Plato was right when he saw in this doctrine the enemy of his caste state; and he hated it more than any other of the 'subversive' doctrines of his time... Never was a man more in earnest in his hostility toward the individual.”

—Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has again ruled out accepting a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the 1967 borders. Addressing a conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committtee (AIPAC) in Washington late on Monday, Netanyahu said Israel could not return to the "indefensible" 1967 borders - something that the US president Barack Obama had suggested a few days earlier. He said "this conflict has raged for nearly a century because the Palestinians refuse to end it. They refuse to accept the Jewish state. This is what this conflict has always been about." "Peace with Palestinians must leave Israel with security, therefore Israel cannot return to the indefensible 1967 lines," he said. Yasser Abed Rabboh, secretary-general of the PLO executive committee, told Al Jazeera in a phone interview that Netanyahu's AIPAC speech "was further evidence that Netanyahu is not interested in initiating any serious political process". ”

—Jazeera

Observed Hostility and the Risk of Incident Ischemic Heart Disease

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enemistad, hostilidad, antagonismo

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