Terry Pratchett on militant decency and justifiable anger

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Anger is the psychological equivalent of pain. Both say "Something is wrong! Stop the wrong! DO something!"
Do we want both to go away, sure, we do, because they are not comfortable states of being in. Can we just numb it, why, yes, to varying degrees. Is it better to deal with the root cause, if we can, absolutely.
Also, both can make you an absolute bitch to deal with.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I had to go to years of therapy to learn that society adds moral weight to emotions the same way it does to food. Cake is a sin, Salad is for saints. We are trained to see emotions like sadness and anger as "Bad" as "Sins" when what they are trying to communicate is important.

Anger is the emotion that says we have been wronged and being placid and treating it as "Bad" or "I shouldn't feel this way" will not fix the issue. I was also trained to use the energy from those higher emotions to improve my life. Anger's energy should be used to address the source of the anger. Constructively if possible but only if the situation is actually worth it to your life and your happiness to salvage. Otherwise it's better to excise the source of that anger, but still use the energy from it.

@Natasha_Jay what should you do if looking at all that makes you feel down instead of angry?

@nyx_lyb3ra
It's not a command to be angry, it's an allowance that it can be natural to feel it

Sadness and anger can coexist too

@Natasha_Jay
No wonder so many people quote Terry Pratchett, Natasha.
This one quotation changes my default mental stance A LOT.