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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6283 Why You Should Get ANGRY!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

Freedom, Politics, Objectivism, Freedomainradio, Anarchy, Democrat, Liberal, Republican, Libertarian, News & Politics, Joe-rogan, Objectivist, Atheism, Philosophy, Atheist, Conservative, Pacifism

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Molyneux digs into the tricky side of anger, weighing how it can shield someone against how it might wreck connections with others. He talks about finding a middle ground in dealing with it, drawing from his own background with a short-tempered parent and the fallout from being overlooked as a kid. Molyneux stresses drawing clear lines with people and warns against chasing understanding from those who can't give it emotionally. In the end, he pushes for seeing anger as a cue to guard yourself, and urges building better awareness around handling feelings.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, everybody.

0:01.7

Stephann Mollini from Freedom, I hope you doing well.

0:04.0

So I had a call this morning, and with the permission of the listener,

0:09.9

I'm going to tell you a good theme that came out of it.

0:14.0

So the question was around anger and the purpose of anger.

0:19.7

So this is nothing to do with this person's life,

0:23.9

but it is an important principle that came out of it,

0:26.4

so we're going to talk about that.

0:29.7

So the big question with anger is,

0:33.4

what's the purpose of anger?

0:35.1

Like, why do we have anger and what is the purpose of anger? How does it

0:39.4

help us? How does it serve us? When is it too much? When is it too little? When is it inappropriate?

0:44.8

Blah, blah, blah. So let me sort of make a case here and tell you what I think is the most important

0:52.1

aspects of anger that need to be thought about when dealing with it.

0:56.7

Because, you know, you don't want to go through life with no anger.

0:59.4

You also don't want to go through life with sort of chronic perpetual irritation and so on.

1:04.6

So let's see if we can find the old Aristotelian mean, right?

1:08.0

Too little anger means that you are too easy to push around. Too much anger

1:13.0

means that quality people don't want to spend time with you and you can only ever have, you know,

1:18.2

victim types in your life. So let's say you grew up with an angry father, an irascible, irritable,

1:26.9

angry father. Could be mother,cible, irritable, angry father.

1:28.4

Could be mother, just going to go, son father.

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