That´s what I think. It´s "easy" to dislike someone but it takes a lot to hate someone. My mother always used to say "hate" is a pretty strong word and I think she´s right. There are even people who think you can only hate someone if you really care for him in a way. I don´t know if this is true, I mean if a stranger does something really horrible to you you can hate him without even knowing him. But for Malcolm Herkabe is only a person he doesn´t want to hang around with and he doesn´t like, but I don´t think he really hates him and wants him to be unborn and things like that.MITM-Fan said:But it's an interesting question. What we consider as "hate" is often just plain "dislike"..so what's the difference? I think you hate something/someone if you are reminded all the time, you have to think about the person in a lot of situations from your allday life. You can't eat, sleep, breathe without focusing your HATE on this person. Briefly said: you just want to kill him/her or at least want that person be unborn or something.
So in this case between Malcolm and Herkabe, I think it's just dislike. He keeps bugging him in lots of ways but it's simple smart-ass competition.