...Actually, I would. ^^ And I'm not just being a jackass; I really mean that.
Every story has parts that are more interesting and parts that are less interesting. And flipping through the book to "see if the hatred remains" is one of the ways I, personally, decide if a story is worth reading.
Of course, by this I don't mean to only read the good parts of a story and ignore the rest; that would be..strange. I just mean to give an author the benefit of the doubt before you drop them. Most people don't write bad books, believe it or not.
If Chapter 1 is bad, sure, skip to Chapter 2. If Chapter 2 is bad, skip to the end; look around the book as if you were looking around a new apartment. If you hate everything you see, then go ahead and drop it. But chances are you may spy a glimmer of hope in a later chapter that will entice you to "settle in" and read the whole thing.
I think that's an opinion. A widely-held opinion, perhaps, but still an opinion.
Just in general, I'd be wary of such a broad statement about how stories work, especially if it contains the word "should". =/ Different books are interesting in different ways to different people.
Think about all the book fads in recent years: Harry Potter, Twilight, The Hunger Games. For every individual who will love those stories until the day they die, there's another who finds them ridiculous, trite, or just plain boring. How can you say for certain "where" the interest lies when people have such radically different reactions to the same stories?
Anyway, all I'm trying to say is to give people a chance. A prologue is called a prologue for a reason; it's supposed to be separate from the main story. So to throw a book out entirely just because you don't like the prologue is like leaving a restaurant because you don't like the appetizer: sure, you're entitled to whatever opinion you want to form of the chef after spitting out that shrimp puff. But, for courtesy's sake if nothing else, at least taste the main course!