Curiosity Café: Being a Hater

The topic of our next café is: Being a Hater We will be hosting our next Curiosity Café on Tuesday, November 10th at the Madison Avenue Pub (14 Madison Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2S1). Come and hang out with us, grab food, and read through our handout from 6-6:30. Our structured discussion will run from 6:30-8:30pm with a 10 minute break in the middle. See *note below regarding this topic. Event Description Hate is complicated. It is one of the strongest feelings we can experience and one of the most controversial. Many religious traditions teach that hate is inherently wrong. This may be reasonable, given the role of hate in perpetuating out-group prejudice and violence. However, some argue that some kinds of hate can play a protective role in our lives, spurring withdrawal or action in cases of abuse or oppression. At our next Curiosity Café, we will explore the role of hate in our personal and social lives. In the first hour, we will share and investigate our personal experiences with feeling hate. What do you find yourself hating? What is hate like, compared to other attitudes? How do you feel about your capacity for hate? Then, we will explore the role of hate in our social and moral lives. Does it have its proper place or are we right to scrutinize it? How does it connect to moral reasoning? And, finally, what is its relationship with love?Join co-moderators Jesse Vriend and Sofia Panasiuk on Tuesday, November 10 for a philosophical exploration of these questions and more. *Note: Hate is a sensitive topic. We’ll work together to approach the topic gently. Neither bigotry nor the appearance of bigotry will be tolerated, nor is our aim to excuse bigotry through explaining it. Instead, we’ll focus more on understanding hate as a feeling, our relationship with it, and its consequences at the interpersonal level. About Ticket Cost: *hey community! Sophia here, Director of Community Programming. We ask that you consider that our ideal recommended amount for a ticket is now $15, and as you choose what to donate within the bounds of your own financial means, we ask that you keep in mind that your donation will go directly towards compensating those involved in making Curiosity Cafés happen so that we can keep doing this for you. Please note that we still have 5 free tickets available for our attendees. If paying anything at all is not financially feasible for you, or our ticketing system presents some other barrier for you, please contact our Director of Community Programming at [email protected]. These tickets will be first come, first served, no questions asked! You can expect to hear back from her within 72 hours. About the Curiosity Café Series For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about. Accessibility Some accessibility-related information* about our event and the venue: • This event involves a verbal discussion, with a handout to guide the discussion • There will be a large-print version of the handout available • We ask the staff at the Maddy to turn off the speakers playing music in the room we are in. Unless we end up in their “VIP” room upstairs (very unlikely!), this keeps background noise to a minimum. • There will be earplugs available to tamper background noise • There are about five steps up to the entrance of the Madison, and another to get in the door. In order to get upstairs, where we sometimes hold our events, there is another set of stairs that are quite steep. While we hope to be in the downstairs room, we cannot guarantee this until closer to the event date. • There are two single stall bathrooms located downstairs that we will have access to. The other bathrooms, located on the main and upper floor, are gendered. • Should you be accompanied by a support person, please contact us in advance so that we can add them to our guest list. Their ticket will be included, for free, as part of your pay-what-you-can ticket. *We recognize that this list provides a far-from comprehensive picture of accessibility-related concerns you might have. Please feel free to contact our team at [email protected], or the Madison Avenue Pub (416-927-1722) with any other questions or concerns you might have.