I'd also like to clarify that just because I think anger isn't a helpful response, I don't agree that no response is correct. That's very binary, black/white, flase dichotomy thinking.
As in the story of the man attacked by wolves, he realized it's pointless to be angry at the wolves. He didn't ignore them. He still dealt with them as wolves, in order to protect himself.
I feel the same about, for instance, Trump voters, racist, bigots of all stripes, etc.
Anger is a natural but useless response. The correct response is to get off your ass and do something to stop them and change things. And that requires recognizing what they are, and trying to get others to recognize it, too.
So if I call someone childish, or racist, or what have you, it isn't in anger. It is in recognition of a flaw or a threat. If I try and change the minds of others, it is because it's best if more people recognize the threat, for all of our survival and peace of mind. If I'm standing in a wood with 50 people, and I'm the only one who sees the wolves because the rest are all reading a fake news article about how there are no wolves, what kind of asshole would I be to save myself and not try and warn the others?
Hope that also makes sense.
As in the story of the man attacked by wolves, he realized it's pointless to be angry at the wolves. He didn't ignore them. He still dealt with them as wolves, in order to protect himself.
I feel the same about, for instance, Trump voters, racist, bigots of all stripes, etc.
Anger is a natural but useless response. The correct response is to get off your ass and do something to stop them and change things. And that requires recognizing what they are, and trying to get others to recognize it, too.
So if I call someone childish, or racist, or what have you, it isn't in anger. It is in recognition of a flaw or a threat. If I try and change the minds of others, it is because it's best if more people recognize the threat, for all of our survival and peace of mind. If I'm standing in a wood with 50 people, and I'm the only one who sees the wolves because the rest are all reading a fake news article about how there are no wolves, what kind of asshole would I be to save myself and not try and warn the others?
Hope that also makes sense.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
