[ExI] anger

[William Flynn Wallace]

Fear and anger are not opposites, physiologically.  Sure, can't get rid of
fear, though.  That would be like a person who cannot feel pain.   bill w

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:25 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:53 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> *> I think that anger has no place in modern society and wish we could
>> excise it from the gene pool.*
>>
> It's the fight or flight response, so the opposite of anger is not love
> it's fear and if you got rid of one you'd have to get rid of them both. And
> I don't think a being could survive for long without fear or anger.
>
> John K Clark
>
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