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atyh | 7 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +17 
 
“He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”
— Thomas Aquinas
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tuco | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Anger is a way of control
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Andronicus | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Hence the attack on “hate speech “
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Padoc2robert | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Also remember the Serenity Prayer 🙏
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0d740dfd | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Before calling to anger, maybe we would need to know what "Justice" is (not what is fair for me... or for him). The idea of Justice that gives Aquinas is a bit of a circular definition, it doesnt help very much