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I think more highly of people who are honest about their emotions and express them, instead of pretending that the motivating force behind almost all of our personal behavior isn't "relevant." Emotional ≠ unproductive.

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It's not a question of whether they express their emotion, but how they express it.

It's possible to express anger without burning bridges.

I don't. The essence of civilization is suppressing animal instincts in service of a higher goal.

I've been around long enough to know that the higher goal is to line the pockets of those who establish and enforce the "polite" interaction rules. They give orders to the workers (in the broadest sense, workers can be productive professors) and skim off a percentage of the output.

OK, sure, that's the order we live under, and it's not ideal. But better than running around foraging all day, and if you wish to change it it's better to save the rage for situations where it's called for.

No, it's abstractions of animal instincts, and that difference is huge.

I don't think so. A lot of those instincts, such as killing, are pretty strongly proscribed.

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