[ExI] anger

[William Flynn Wallace]

I can find nothing to disagree with or to add to.    bill w

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:01 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *>…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] anger
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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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> Your Dad - totally cool and calm when you misbehaved?  Let your mother do
> all the emotional stuff?   bill w
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> Ja, my mother was a classic over-reactor, emotions in overdrive much of
> the time over nothing.
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> BillW, since you are into this sorta thing: seeing these two convinced me
> that our anger set-point is mostly genetic.  My brother and I are close in
> age, had nearly identical upbringing.  But he has a moderately hot temper
> but I don’t.  He is a moderate pessimist but I am not.  I am told I am the
> classic dreamer-idealist unrealistic optimist.
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> I don’t recall ever signing up for any particular disposition, but rather
> suspect that it is nearly all genetic rather than influence.  The luck of
> the draw perhaps.
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> spike
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