[ExI] anger

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 3:09 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The way to handle anger:  forgiveness.  Forgive yourself for perhaps
> overreacting.  Forgive whoever made you angry whatever the reason (why?
> grudges only hurt you)  Acting out your anger only makes it worse.  Freud
> was wrong.  The Greeks too.
>

Somebody shoots your dog, rapes your daughter, or lynches your son and
forgiveness is the only recourse?

Act out your anger and what does it get you?
>

You can be angry without reacting recklessly.

  For some it has produced feuds lasting hundreds of years between Scottish
> clans.  Look at the Arabs and Jews.  You can never really get even.  ATand
> T has screwed me more than once.  What should I do?  Go out and pull some
> of their cables down?
>

Maybe switch to a different phone provider?

We don't need anger.
>

I disagree. Some things *should* make you angry, and that anger should
motivate you to do something to redress the wrong or prevent it from
happening again.

-Dave
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