I thinkit is time that I get something off my chest in a public forum: I hate sushi.To be fair, I’ve never actually tried real sushi. I’m basing thesefeeling off of a general dislike for some fish I had once, with the fullknowledge and realization that I very possibly may be depriving myself ofsomething wonderful. However, I highly doubt that I would like sushi were I totry it. I’m secure in my sushi hatred, based on nothing more than vagueassumptions and general conceptual dislike of raw fish.

Objectively,I recognize that my sushi-hatred is both irrational and unjustified. I will,however, put forth that it is necessary.

Ithink that bigotry is an unfortunate side effect of the human condition.Unfortunately, it’s within our nature to hate things and although we trywe cannot transcend these baser instincts. There’s a certain amount ofirrational hatred stored up in each and every one of us, hardwired into ourgenetic code. While I don’t think we have the ability to entirelyeliminate our natural hate, I think we do have some choice as to its target.Thus, I choose to direct mine towards sushi, because hating sushi is muchbetter than hating other people.

IfI have to hate something, I might as well hate the most innocuous thingpossible. Thus far, it seems to be working.