Ｑ49.What is contempt?

Ａ.Contempt is an attitude where one is angry but does not act on the anger.<br>
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　　Emotions which branch from anger are also contempt, dissatisfaction, indignation, resentment, frustration, and impatience.<br>
　　Contempt is an emotion that branches out when the situation causes a person to be angry. Contempt occurs when weak anger and inaction combined.<br>
　　Contempt is also called scorn or disdain.<br>
　　People whose actions towards other stand out as obedient, such as those who have excessively servile attitudes or use flattery, will be held in contempt by others. People with no value to a person when measured according to the person's sense of value will be despised by the person. If a person is felt of as having little influence that person will not be regarded as necessary to communicate with. Strictly speaking, objects of contempt are only humans, not stones or trees.<br>
　　Bad people, whose influence is negative, are also objects of contempt. This is because bad people's influence will lessen if one does not associate with them. However, if you get hurt by that bad person, you will most likely feel anger, not contempt.<br>
　　If people feel contempt, they straighten their back, look down the other person, raise their eyebrows and raise one side of mouth. This is a signal of indifference, which means, "do as you wish!". It is sometimes accompanied with a sneer. Sneer is a kind of smile but means, "I'll accept anything you do because your influence is nothing."<br>
　　An action which contempt leads to is to refuse to deal with the targeted person and ignore them. A person may blurt out things such as, "That's how X is", or actually spit.<br>
　　Contempt makes people cut off unnecessary thinking and move towards the next action. It is not beneficial to deal with someone who has little influence regardless of whether this influence is good or bad. Contempt makes people channel their psychological energy in a more profitable direction.<br>
　　If a person feels that the object of contempt is an obstacle, the person may attack it without mercy. The object of contempt is treated as a thing so the hunting instinct activates, not anger. People may torture the object of contempt to death.<br>
　　Prejudice or discrimination sometimes occurs from wrongful contempt within a culture. If a person mistakenly thinks that one who is not the original object of contempt is an object of contempt for reasons such as difference of race or gender, discrimination occurs.<br>
　　Excessive contempt will make people feel apathetic and become reclusive. However, insufficient contempt makes people feel mentally exhausted.