In support of the rage of man

[bennyboy]

I think we can all agree that rage is something all humans experience, and the only thing we can control is our behavior. If this thread is in support of the bad behavior of raging men, it's bad. If it's in support of recognizing rage as natural and controlling our response to it, it's good. As for all of the other he-man woman-hater's shit this thread has coughed up, that's an entirely different nut to crack.

I'd say there's intrinsic good in all of our animal instincts-- if you consider genetic fitness a good.  What there isn't, is a good evolutionary adaptation to the close-quarters city life where you have a million people living within a few miles of you.

But it's not a lifestyle choice.  Nobody's sitting around thinking, "I'd really like to shorten my life span with super-high blood pressure, and if I could hit a few women along the way, that would be an added bonus."

In literally every instinct, we can see that there's variance in the degree to which people possess or respond to that instinct-- and at both the positive and negative tails of the Bell Curve, there's a problem.t.  If you say, "We are poorly adapted to a food environment with lots of sugars and starches, and a certain percentage of the populace just can't seem to control eating certain foods," nobody's suggesting that they are saying "Fuck good health.  Fuck how my loved ones feel about it.  I'm gonna go get me a dozen donuts."  While it's sickening to some degree, and while it's hard for others to understand why people lack the ability to get this behavior under wraps, there are so many in this boat that it's obviously coming from high-priority systems in the brain.

The same goes for love-- the things otherwise sane mothers will do or say when their own precious offspring are involved can be downright toxic. But we get it-- it's coming from such a primal instinct that she's unable to see how totally in the wrong she is.