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    Anger disposes us to cruelty and vengeance, which passion... — Carmelics
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    Supports→All forms of anger are inconsistent with the moral life.

    Anger disposes us to cruelty and vengeance, which passions encourage us to see other people as less than fully human.

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    Nietzsche’s view suggests the further idea that even episodic angry emotions may be a sign of moral infirmity, insofar as such emotions concede power to others by revealing one’s vulnerability to injury. But the truly noble or strong are thought to have, in some sense, no such vulnerabilities. Second, some recent popular views suggest that the uninhibited expression of anger and rage is a good thing, insofar as such venting is cathartic. But on consequentialist grounds alone it seems clear that controlling intense anger rather than its unfettered expression is closer to what a good life requir...

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