Indeed we can and we must!

We must all know people who maybe perhaps we love but still disagree with what they do and stand for. That happens a lot in family relationships I suppose.

I detest so many things that people in power make us all swallow and put up with. They seem able to make decisions that affect millions for the worse and still sleep at night. That would not stop me feeling sorry for their families if something bad happened them. I doubt they would give me the time of day, unless it meant a vote for them, but that should not stop me having emotions and feelings. I would not wish anyone dead who had ever done me wrong (but if they fell down the stairs and maybe broke a leg perhaps I may smile a second or two?).

Death is too permanent a state to wish or heap on anyone who disagrees with our own core values. Not being able to empathise when tragedy takes its turn on them only makes us as bad as we may have seen them.

Empathising shows so much I think. One cannot manufacture it. Feeling empathy has to be better than feeling hate or loathing for anyone. That said, I can still detest some folk for what they say and believe. That stops well short of hating them

Just my opinion though

mp