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@DaddyBigBucks point, I respectfully (see what I did there?) disagree. You can indeed hate something without respecting it.
I hate cancer. I hate war. I hate hunger. I hate people that hurt children. I hate extremists. I hate the French and I especially hate *ichigan.
See, no respect for any proper noun on that list.
This will be my last word on the subject, because semantics isn't really why we're here, but...
For most of these things our difference is not in the definition of hate, it is in the definition of respect.
If something is especially dangerous, you change your behavior because of it. When something causes you to change your behavior, you have acknowledged that it poses a threat to something that you value. This might pose a very low level of respect, but it is respect as I define it. If you truly have zero respect for something, you ignore it. It has no effect on your behavior.
Cancer kills a lot of people. Very few things kill more. The conference that Ohio State belongs to has a multi-billion dollar consortium dedicated to eradicating it. You don't do that for things you ignore, you do that for things you respect as a legitimate threat.
Same with war. It kills people and breaks things and mankind changes their behavior massively in attempts to prevent war.
Ditto hunger. Most of us have probably given money or food to strangers because hunger, even in a stranger, is something we hate. But it has thus changed our behavior. Once again, if you don't respect it, you would simply ignore it.
People that hurt children... That's a tough one, and here it really tests my definition. But to me you can only truly hate something that is a threat, and if you are recognizing it as a threat to something you value, you are giving it that much respect. As I've already said, it is about as low a level of respect as there is, but it is not something you ignore. (Ditto extremists).
As for the French... This might be where our disagreement is not with the word respect but with the word hate. The French are not a threat, they don't affect our behavior. So here I would say that I (and it seems you) despise the French. The whole difference between despise and hate is respect.
And this brings us back around to TTUN, the French of the B1G. I despise them. Maybe the Buckeyes despise them. But the Buckeyes have given them that bottom-of-the-barrel level of respect where you alter your behavior only because you think that the only threat that they can pose to you is if you overlook them. This is the level of respect that you pay to a rabid rat. You absently swat it with a shovel without really putting much effort into it; but you then make sure it's dead. Hence UTQTFS. That's just us wanting to make sure the rat is dead.
