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[David Fuller <sol3az@igc.apc.org>]

Hi Jack,

Not often on this list... but every now and then a chord is struck, and I 
reply.
I suggest that the word "anger" is too inchoate to be useful.  "Outrage", I
can deal with.  

It has the sense of focus - a reaction to specific events, or a set of
values that are abhorrent.

A thought, not wishing to be a wordsmith, but these are the tools we work 
with.

David Fuller
Learning Village Project, Tucson, AZ.


At 03:28 PM 3/29/98 -0500, Jack Rowe wrote:
>Just back from some 'speelunking'...
>
>Righteous anger, eh? I don't buy it... seen lots of it, you bet. I grew up
>in an angry place and time far, far away... not so far in some terms,
>perhaps -- aeons and other worlds, in other terms. Funny thing, righteous
>anger comes in all colors. What fuels the bombers and terrorists of the
>right wing (or any wing), the Anti-Choicers, the racists? How do we
>distinguish our 'good' righteous anger from the 'bad' righteous anger of
>our 'adversaries' on other than some narcissistic or absolutist ethical
>basis? Why do we have the vast majority of the wars we have?
>Jack
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