>>12160853>Can I make myself hate something by associating this thing with physical pain?I had trigeminal neuralgia type 2 whcih was greatly worsened by temperature changes, physical contact, and eating. Even without the pain, eating made me incredibly sick as well. Basically, it's more complex than you think, and it depends on a person's early childhood (their psychological architecture) and innate probably genetic biases so far as coping mechanisms.
Ultimately though, in short, punishment and torture are among the more effective methods of behavioral modification, especially if there is no clear external source for the anguish. No ability to fight, nothing to be fought, no one to truly blame, no escape, and no end in sight. A punishment which is guaranteed and inescapable. What the organism does then, to continue functioning, is it eventually learns to "submit". It traces out and then perpetually chases an ever shifting and often narrowing "island of stability", where if it only outputs those behaviors, if it stays within that range, it is not punished. It is a traumatic, and reductive process. The organism learns to put things it does not need, away. It morphs and chameleons itself to a state where it can have as much as possible without being crippled or harmed. Therefore, like all forms of conditioning,it is re-organized inside and out. It establishes a basis for thought crime as well, and the organism will sort of self police its internal world.
So no, you don't learn to hate, you learn to simply avoid and fear. If you cannot avoid, you readily accept and switch over into another state where the pain of the pain (and what comes with it, what it means) is more manageable. You just stop thinking. If "self" is a spectrum, then large chunks of it are blotted out, large sections turn the same color, and the whole thing is narrowed down.
Now this is not the kind of thing you have in mind, but point is, you don't want it. See: A Clockwork Orange.
