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Perhaps it's just Twitter, but there seems to be an epidemic of anger out there at the moment.

Relax listeners, it's not worth it. Getting angry is an entirely destructive emotion

that does nobody any good and which you would do well to suppress.

Or would you? Here's my Yusha Cherry, calmly putting the case for getting angry.

At least about some things.

My Yusha Cherry, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you so much for having me.

The topic we're going to talk about today is rage.

Now, is rage different from anger?

Well, we're being careful with distinctions it is, right?

Philosophers are very careful about the words that we use in distinctions that we make.

There is a distinction, right?

So one might say rage is just a more intense form of anger.

And so when you are outraged or enraged, you feel anger more deeply.

But there's another distinction.

Some people might also say not only is rage felt more intensely than anger, but rage is

a little bit more irrational than anger.

Stoke Seneca says something about if this emotion has taken over oneself and one is not

able to have control over one's four rational capacities.

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