I’m not sure I’ve ever felt anger in the way it seems to be described here. As in, anger as an uncontrolled emotional response to disliking something/someone. I have felt something close to violence-instinct where I thought that a person was a danger/bad and it was time to hurt them but that seems different.
While I tend to agree with you that anger is bad an should be avoided that seems like an extension of the general rule of “You should decide what you feel’ rather than letting feelings just randomly happen to you as if they’re something external to you like the weather over which you have no control.
One point of disagreement, “If you cannot diffuse the situation then fight as a last resort”. I’m not sure this is the correct approach. Let’s say a bad person walks up to you and demands you apologize for a perceived slight. Should you do so if the alternative is violence? I realize many people here would say yes but to me giving in to evil/injustice in that way seems intuitively deeply wrong and I would rather choose to fight.
I’m not sure I’ve ever felt anger in the way it seems to be described here. As in, anger as an uncontrolled emotional response to disliking something/someone. I have felt something close to violence-instinct where I thought that a person was a danger/bad and it was time to hurt them but that seems different.
While I tend to agree with you that anger is bad an should be avoided that seems like an extension of the general rule of “You should decide what you feel’ rather than letting feelings just randomly happen to you as if they’re something external to you like the weather over which you have no control.
One point of disagreement, “If you cannot diffuse the situation then fight as a last resort”. I’m not sure this is the correct approach. Let’s say a bad person walks up to you and demands you apologize for a perceived slight. Should you do so if the alternative is violence? I realize many people here would say yes but to me giving in to evil/injustice in that way seems intuitively deeply wrong and I would rather choose to fight.