Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!denelcor!neal From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Anger Message-ID: <331@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:32:46 EST Article-I.D.: denelcor.331 Posted: Thu Feb 9 23:32:46 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 09:45:35 EST References: <181@ubc-vision.UUCP> Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO Lines: 31 ************************************************************************** > O.K. sometimes anger is justified. After all it is a "natural" > reaction to show when injustice is seen. So what are you going > to do with your anger? Any decision you might make based on your > anger is likely to be unfair or revengeful. > If I were you, I wouldn't speak so freely on behalf of "most > humans". Indeed, getting angry may be easy for a lot of people. > Not getting angry is much harder (specially if one has a "good" reason for it) and a person who can do that is > much more interesting to me. Anger is blinding and very possibly > destructive (not necessarily physical destruction). > Don't get me wrong. I am no Gandhi and I don't love any death > camp prison guards. Dammit (excuse me but I am angry), getting angry is sometimes the most appropriate thing you can do. Granted, decisions based on anger may well be poor decisions in several ways, "unfair" and "revengeful" are probably the BEST that can be said. Decisions based on anger may also be good decisions--check them out with your "rational self" (i.e., don't implement the decision until you have thought about it after you get past the "heat of the moment"--is that what you REALLY want to do?). Not getting angry when anger is appropriate is much more destructive both physically and mentally. Regards, Neal Weidenhofer Denelcor, Inc.!denelcor!neal