[ExI] anger

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 20 19:37:09 UTC 2020


 I have known people who are very nearly devoid of anger (my father was
like that (if he had a trace of it, I never saw it in 17 years.))



spike


Your Dad - totally cool and calm when you misbehaved?  Let your mother do
all the emotional stuff?   bill w

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 2:03 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> …> *On Behalf Of *John Clark via extropy-chat
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> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:53 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
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> *> **I think that anger has no place in modern society and wish we could
> excise it from the gene pool.*
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> >…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.
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> I don’t see how fear and anger are opposite.  I would consider them more
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> I don’t think a person needs the emotion of anger at all, but could keep
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> I have known people who are very nearly devoid of anger (my father was
> like that (if he had a trace of it, I never saw it in 17 years.))
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