I don't hate anything or anyone. But generally I have disdain for anyone who makes one aspect of their personality their WHOLE personality. Even that I can take, as long as it isn't then being forced upon me just for being in the same vicinity. I don't do that with my opinions / beliefs / whatever, so I just want that same treatment in public places.
Edit: For the record, I don't see the above-described as being true of most furries or even most people in general. There are annoying people in every group / subculture though.
I'm getting old enough now where this is true for multiple things, but the ones that come to mind would be my schools - 2 of the 3 schools I attended have since been demolished. My high school is still standing, but the elementary and Junior High schools are gone now.
There's no grave marker for the old mall in my home town. Just a new, totally different mall.
An elementary school was torn down and a replacement built right next to it, on the same grounds. The old school I attended is now the new parking lot.
The church I attended as a child is gone. Luckily my belief was torn down years before that happened.
In essence my high school doesn't exist, at least not as it did. It was dramatically reconstructed and hardly resembles the school I went to.
Of course these were things that were old when I knew them, and only continued to age to the point they needed replacing. The oldest stuff in my home town though, will outlast me.
There was a forest we use to play in behind my friends house . It had a few giant trees. They must have been hundreds of years old. One was 3-4 meters in diameter. We used to climb them using the coarse bark up to the branches and see how high we could go. You could see the whole neighborhood. Wonderful memories.
Same where I grew up, worst part was the developer bought it like two decades ago, sat on it for five ish years (logged a single dirt road), then put in paved roads/utilities and a demo house for another five with empty lots cut, and the last ten or so have built maybe four more. So it's not even utilized, they cut down huge swaths of forest and it's just sat most of the time.
This happened on a much smaller scale to me. My grandparent's home was demolished to make way for a McMansion after they sold it. They were the only people to ever live in that beautiful house.
We had an incredible ravine that got destroyed for a highway that I've driven many times as an adult. It's a rare trip that I don't think back to the beautiful place where I spent countless hours of summer breaks being wild and free.
There are some woods in our neighborhood, which aren't owned by anyone in the neighborhood. The risk is obvious. I would like us to buy those woods so we control them, but every time I say it, they start screeching, "I don't want an HOA!" Neither do I, I have two RVs sitting in my driveway. But I would like some limited partnership simply for owning those woods....
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