I think hate is a strong word. I do not hate those who opposed the fork. I disagree with them and I am also suspicious of their motives. If you supported ETH before the fork, then you should support it after the community decided to fork. I think most people felt forking was the right ting to do because they did not want to see the thief rewarded for his theft and to set an example for future thefts if there are any.
IF your value proposition is "the code is the law", and that code behaves differently than, well, than what ? What you INTENDED the code to do ? But where is that written down if the code is the law ?, then the DAO hacker behaved perfectly legit: simply, the DAO code didn't behave as most people somehow thought is should/was supposed/.... to behave, but under "the code is the law" those feelings have no meaning.
If your value proposition is NOT "the code is the law", then 1) the ethereum and DAO web sites were lying because that's what they said to all people 2) smart contracts, and their support, ethereum, have no meaning.
So the DAO hacker is only a thief if 1) you deny the principles on which ethereum and the DAO were built, and 2) you admit that ethereum and the DAO websites have been lying about these principles.
Those who were against the fork often said, let the thief keep his stolen goods. Some even claimed that he didn't actually steal anything. Now those people are trying to pump up ETC as a means of striking back at the community that voted for the fork. That appears to be sour grapes or maybe its something more sinister. In any case, this fork, while allowing ETC to survive, is rewarding the sore losers who refuse to accept the vote of the community.
You seem to miss that in crypto, there is (like Ms. Thatcher said so well) "no such thing as a community". Everybody is free and what is perceived as a community is only a collection of individuals that, for the time being, have sufficiently common goals to work together. There is no engagement of anybody to "swear an oth of fidelity to the King or to the Community". There's no such thing as "democratic dictatorship". The whole point of crypto is individual freedom. The so-called consensus is only an individual calculation of having more advantages of sticking to the "mean" than to go apart. If those advantages are preceived to be smaller than to go one's way, then it is normal that one celebrates "independence day" and splits off.
In any case, now we have two ETH coins which for anyone supporting ETH would be the last outcome they would want.
On the contrary, I think it is the best thing that could happen: everybody is now closer to his personal desire than if one had to stick to a single common goal. This is a great lesson. One shouldn't in fact be afraid of forking block chains. Many forks are a good thing, because they can tune better each prong to individual desires, rather than have the common soup for everybody.
then it would be unlikely that anyone would have a reason to oppose that. However messing with the blockchain is a different story. There is no conspiracy but there might be a lesson to be learned here.
