Antipathy

 

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You have met people whose mind-set is skewed. These persons always look for the mistakes of others for the sole reason of concealing their own lapses.

Antipathy is showing a strong dislike or opposition to another person.

There are persons in the human ecology who directly feel dislike to others and will automatically find their faults and convince others to dislike the ones they are targeting. These individuals often have conflicts with others when the subjects of their antipathy react.

Much more attention is generally paid to empathy and sympathy than to antipathy, indifference, and mixed feelings, as though people were prone to compassion and not to disdain and dislike (Plantinga, 2009).

We herald on empathy, a positive trait mostly done by persons who see others as their equal yet we understand that there are those whose plain aversion to others exist.

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potentials reported that antipathy is a dislike for something or somebody, the opposite of sympathy. While antipathy may be induced by experience, it sometimes exists without a rational cause-and-effect explanation being present to the individuals involved.

The exploration of a philosophical aspect for antipathy has been found in an essay by John Locke, an early modern 17th century philosopher. Anchored on this thesis, social scientists consider those with antipathy as persons with low agreeableness.

People with low agreeableness prefer confrontation over cooperation, those who scores low agreeableness will even be very aggressive towards others in order to get what they want. Rather than taking the time to praise a person’s work or someone’s home, low agreeability is common with those who like to criticize and single out opportunities to do so as well.

Conflict arise in the organization with the presence of persons with strong antipathy. Leaders must understand how to deal with these persons. Yet, if this is a developed character-trait, it must be the person to lead himself towards self-improvement.

If not, the individual may suffer the consequence when LEARNED persons plot to destroy the “villain” through calculated, legal and careful moves to target the Achilles Heels.