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I have my issues. I don't think anger is good, but sometimes it helps you deal with things better.

For whatever intrinsic value it may or may not have, I've got this one down pat. This is where I excel. I think it is simultaneously a great engine for accomplishing things and terribly destructive of the person who harbors it ... if that makes any sense ... I know it sounds sort of like an oxymoron.

Men like to be angry. Why do you think we like watching sports, playing video games, making bets and fixing broken things so much.

Anger is not recognized often enough and leads to passive aggressiveness and taking out your problems on others and blaming them for it afterwards. There's so many things you can do with anger like play sports, engage in activism and just confront the person who made you angry. Sometimes people don't see anger for what it is and take it out of context which only makes the angry person angrier. Anger is not accepted in many societies and that must be hard because you can't always be smiling while you are angry on the inside. Women are often conditioned to be happy, smile and go with the flow. Pent up anger makes people do crazy things against others and themselves. It also makes them depressed, anger turned inward. I don't agree with the notion of faking it just to be nice because if some people can't take it then they should get out of my kitchen!!

Anger can be a good thing as long as we remain in control. Anger can spur us to do good things For instance after Teri Schiavo dies we are going to be so angry that we might make some changes in our own lives, or in the way these matters are handled and maybe even in the government.

Anger is a gift. However, that is not an excuse to commit a wrong. Anger must be controlled but not ignored.

I use this emotion a lot, too. A lot of people/things tick me off. It's good to have. For example, without it you'd be a wimp. You would let people push you around. But, anger can be a bad thing especially if you can't express your anger in a controlled manner...

Need my anger, too.

It's healthy to be angry once in a while. Especially when your sports teams are doing awful and that you're being censored all the damn time.

Anger is an energy great PIL song. Oh yeah it's a killer. Causes stress and death in some people. Only time anger is good is when you go to war otherwise an emotion that is destroying our planet.

Anger just eats you up inside. It very rarely leads to anything positive unless you channel it into a more positive emotion.

one of my favorites. more a general outrage at the humanity and the disgusting worthless things we have to do on a daily basis just to keep ourselves in clothing, shelter, and food. i think anger is un-PC now. No one gets angry anymore. perhaps that explains our current cultural climate of government and entertainment. we settle for mediocre leaders and mediocre music, movies, and books. everything is docile, it has no heart.

Easily the most distasteful and regrettable emotions, I do my best to not be angry. Sometimes, it happens, however. Thus, I take my anger and filter it into a harmless form like writing, playing video games, and in extreme situations--tearing tissues.

This is one I don't experience very often. I am a pretty layed back person. I couldn't get that mad under ordinary circumstances. The only way I could get REALLY mad would be if somebody hurt my family.