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A more promising line of argument for Wang is his appropriation of an example from the Great Learning (Commentary 6), which suggests that loving the good is "like loving a lovely sight," while hating evil is "like hating a hateful odor" (Tiwald and Van Norden 2014, 191).
It is like hating a hateful odor, or loving a lovely sight.
As Zhu Xi explains, "…those who desire to cultivate themselves, when they know to do good in order to avoid the bad, must then genuinely make an effort and forbid self deception, making their hatred of the [ethically] hateful be like their hating a hateful odor, and their loving what is good like their loving a lovely sight" (Tiwald and Van Norden 2014, 192).
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Giving them and myself the benefit of the doubt, I can rule out excessive body odor or bad breath; a hateful, intimidating scowl; hip-hop clothing; or a hideous deformity as possible objections to my person.
Hateful boy.
Overturn this hateful #prop8 !
Tired of hateful comments?
Daniel is not entirely hateful.
What an absolutely hateful, hateful human being," he wrote.
"He was just a hateful, hateful man".
Odor indistinct.
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