NEW ESSAY: Rethinking What It Means to “Love Your Enemy”

This is the latest essay I published in my project Me, Looking for Meaning.

When people hear phrases like “love your enemy,” the mind often jumps to an extreme case: the worst person imaginable, doing the worst things. From that starting point, the reaction is predictable: “I can’t possibly love someone like that.”

And from there, the entire idea gets dismissed. The concept is treated as unrealistic, naïve, or even morally wrong.

But this reaction rests on a misunderstanding. It assumes that the idea demands something dramatic: choosing the person you despise most and forcing yourself to feel warmth, compassion, or forgiveness. That is not what is at stake.

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