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    It is not the case that Controlling intense anger rather than its unfettered expression is closer to what a good life requires.

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    • 1.Aristotle's doctrine of the mean holds that the virtuous person feels anger of the right intensity, at the right target, at the right time—not merely controlled anger.
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    • 2.A life that systematically suppresses appropriate anger fails the Aristotelian standard of eudaimonia, which requires emotional responses calibrated to genuine moral injuries.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'unfettered expression' with 'intense anger,' obscuring that righteous anger proportionate to wrongdoing is itself a constitutive feature of moral character.
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    • 1.Audre Lorde and bell hooks argue that anger at injustice, when fully expressed rather than controlled, serves as a necessary epistemic and political tool for oppressed groups.
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    • 2.Prescribing anger-control as universally closer to the good life imposes a norm that historically silences those whose intense anger constitutes legitimate moral testimony against systemic wrongs.
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    • Though anger may sometimes be enabling in motivating constructive solutions to personal or political problems, its indiscriminate expression is more likely to be disabling, both for those expressing it and for those around them.
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