Where is the anger directed? At the person who was abused before that continues the chain? At the behavior? Your example was so general. Are you seeing this? Do you give the abuser a hand after you stop the initial action and ask them what's happened to them? Can you let them have a cigarette to gain their composure? Do you have children?
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM, SteveW <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi ED. I agree with you on this. I certainly don't think that people > should never be angry when it is appropriate to the situation. What I am > really talking about are pervasive conditioned patterns of response across > the board. For Aversion types, even when they are not angry, there is still > a subtle urge to push away, and escape from, people, places and things. > Anger is sometimes perfectly appropriate, imo. If I see a child being > abused, I will certainly allow the quite appropriate anger to energize my > appropriate response to protect the child. IMO. > Steve > > > > >
