Anger, Disagreement and Rationality

An angry-man is often discarded by society because anger is treated as a negative attribute of personality. There are two aspects to it - getting angry and showing anger. It is said, "Wise persons get angry while foolish show it." An anger is always a result of a disagreement. So, to be angry requires both - 'courage of wisdom' and 'wisdom of courage' - to confront the situation. Conversely, concurrence is easy, needs no anger and raises no confrontation. It needs neither the courage nor the wisdom of any kind. 

When a person gets angry, he/she is ready to confront and this can only be when the person is sure of the situation's irrationality and his/her own rationality. Therefore, anger makes a person more rational than the persons concurring the situation. This is confirmed by a recent psychological research. 


Anger is, of course, may result in flawed thinking, increment in prejudice and trigger aggression. But these things happen only when the person displays his/her anger fiercely. A disagreement may be without display of anger but surely it accompanies an internal anger. Therefore, there is an invisible demarcation line between anger and disagreement. But when it comes to display of an anger, or being angry, the demarcation line gets highlighted. 

Indeed, an anger makes the person more careful and rational about the counter-view in order of getting prepared for a logical confrontation. Therefore, habitually angry-persons are habitually rational also. Only thing they lack is diplomacy, considered to be an asset in modern societies, but is a falsehood from morality point of view. 


Even when a person is in raze, psychologists have found that he/she becomes more careful and logical than he/she would normally be. Thus, an anger improves his/her analytical and decision making capabilities. He/she processes information more carefully and analytically. The only short-coming of a person in anger is that he/she may sometimes resort to more mental short-cuts in information processing. 

This leads to a conclusion that a habitually angry person proves to be the best decision maker provided he/she is cool at that moment. Therefore, even occasional cooling of a hot person is the greatest asset for the society and habitually cool persons have nothing to give to the society. 


Here one thing needs to be cleared. Anger and frustration are two different attributes of personality. In frustration, the person tends to become pessimistic and is the result. While the anger is a process with the person in vibrant thinking mode with a disagreement.