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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 673446" data-attributes="member: 9045">On the contrary, I believe that without my anger I would not take action to stop that wrong-doing to my children.  It is the emotion that sparks the action of protection, anger at wrong done to your child (in this case).  I always understood when my father flew into a protective rage, that that rage was my shield and my sword.  I was safe behind my father's rage because it would protect me.  (Now being in FRONT of it, that's another story.  heh heh)Again, I disagree resoundingly.  And, to put earlier posts in relation, yeah I do disagree to a degree that angers me, and I too believe fully that I cannot hope to express or explain how severely I disagree without foul and vulgar displays.  But, I am sad and pathetic enough that I'll take the time to try. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />My anger is] a signal, but not of any fears or insecurities, no secret shames or inner sobbing or anything so silly.  My anger is a signal that I must rally against that thought or action because I think it is wrong, or harmful, or detrimental in some way.  I have anger at your viewpoint.  It's not because I secretly know you're right and am angry at myself, or any such pseudo-freudian idea.  It's simply that if viewed on a macro-level, your opinion in this matter is in contention with mine in a 'survival of the fittest'-esque fashion.  On the macro-level, only one or the other can exist, because they are incompatible.  Now on their contextual level, that's not so and it appears silly and meaningless.  But if it ever came up for a vote to be a United States Law, then it would indeed be on a macro-level, and my belief is in mortal danger.  So, that's how one can feel anger at another's viewpoint, it's a matter of seeing the bigger macro-level scale that the confrontation of ideas could grow into, and the danger it poses to ones-self.  Again, anger is a basic function of survival, not a way to martyr ones-self in one's own view.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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