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    All forms of anger are inconsistent with the moral life. — Carmelics
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    Supports→The person of virtue is one who strives to extirpate anger in all its forms.

    All forms of anger are inconsistent with the moral life.

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    • Anger disposes us to cruelty and vengeance, which passions encourage us to see other people as less than fully human.
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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of the mean holds that anger expressed at the right target, degree, and time is a virtue (praotes).
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    • 2.A person who feels no anger at genuine injustice exhibits a moral deficiency, not moral excellence.
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    • 1.Audre Lorde and bell hooks argue that anger at oppression is a politically necessary and morally clarifying response to systemic wrong.
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    • 2.Suppressing anger at injustice can entrench complicity, meaning anger sometimes serves moral life rather than undermining it.
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