Re: EMOTIONAL IQ: (Transhumans: Anger management vs. Guns)

Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:25:18 -0700

mark@unicorn.com wrote:
>
> dwayne [dwayne@pobox.com] wrote:

> >Why get angry about it? Why not just ask them to stop?
>
> Because if you don't get angry when you ask them to stop they're
> not going to know how much you want them to stop. Anger is a
> well-developed social convention which tells other people when
> they've gone too far.

Except that when a white male such as myself gets angry about something, he's being a fascist patriarchal oppressor, and is obviously in the wrong. Sigh.

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Doug Jones, Rocket Plumber
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