Well, if the human condition is primarily shaped by the will to power, then it is only normal for one to hate all that renders one powerless. Accordingly, things like rejection are symptoms of powerlessness. Fundamentally, however, it is powerlessness itself that is the cause of such hatred. Thus, powerlessness should be the ultimately target of hate, rather than these other superfluous things which are merely extensions of powerlessness. More critically, this begs the question of what causes powerlessness itself (and should that not be hated even more than powerlessness itself)? I have my answer and you guys have yours. I submit that true power is primarily a zero-sum game wherein when a person wins another person necessarily loses. Thus, the ultimate cause of powerlessness is directly linked to the increase in power of another. This is why emotions such as jealousy and envy are born out of another's rise in power which necessarily results in a weakening of power in another. Therefore, given my thesis it would be correct to note that power is relative and exists only in relation to others who are defined similarly. The counterpoint is that in certain cases individuals can use cooperation to increase their power. And that may be true, but under these conditions we replace individual with entitiy, and surely there is another anti-entity who has been weakened. So for intance, a free trade may result in gains made in power by both parties but there is another entity who will be negatively affected by that trade. For example, I may gain and a supplier in China may gain from a free trade, but it causes job losses or wage cuts to domestic workers. Thus, it's still zero-sum because that is the nature of true power. Further, as a result of a context of relative power, the best hope for stability is to establish a balance of power. Power is more balanced when it is more evenly destributed (for example, there was a bipolar distribution of power during the Cold War between the US and allies and USSR and allies), but there can also be a multipolar power structure. Moreover, this conception is not just applicable to international relations, but also to domestic affairs, household affairs, business affairs, groups, and so on. Any social structure will have a particular configuration of power. There are better and worse compositions of power, but power remains power.