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Anger is a demand for better treatment. It is a bargaining emotion. Anger evolved to get people to treat us better. This is known as the "the recalibrational theory of anger." The evolutionary question is: Why did humans develop the capacity for anger in the first place? What useful...

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Why would evolutionary psychology begin with the psychosocial aspects of anger, rather than the instinctual benefits of anger as a survival adaptation for the chaotic and hostile world of our ancestral past?

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Anger would have been a powerful dominance-asserting tool in our ancestral arsenal, but we now live in a world that has grown to accommodate morality, justice and courtesy. (Or at least, it purports to.) Acting in anger is rarely a sound strategy in modern times. At best, we’re left volleying anger like a hot potato. At worst, we’re left injured or in jail. Rarely does acting in anger ever lead to those seven words that we crave most. (More here if curious:

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And let's not forget that anger is amazing fuel/energy boost. It'll keep you up for days.

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One could say it’s about boundaries and defense, most animals have territorial behaviors.

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Culture is genetic because behavior is genetic. This beaver never saw a dam in its life. No beavers or anything else ever taught it to build a dam. It wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Many beavers together build a big dam. That is beaver culture. Humans are not different. Nothing is different. This is what life is. This is how life works. Your body is your mind. A caterpillar wants to build a chrysalis. A bee wants to build a hive. A lion wants to build a pride. You are not special. You are not above your nature. you are INSIDE of it. The thoughts that we think are genetic thoughts. The crimes we commit are genetic crimes. The art we create is genetic art. Just like this beaver, you can give the animal different sticks and it will build a different dam, but it will always build a dam. And you can give humans different "education," but the human will always use it to do what its genes tell it to do. This is the first big answer that you need. This is the biggest piece of the puzzle. This is how to understand people 90% of the way. You just... notice what they do, and get out of the way, and watch them do it. And if they need sticks, you give them sticks. And if you don't like what they do, you have to get away from them. You cannot train dam-building into them or out of them any more than you can with a beaver. A beaver wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Whatever you see people build, that's what they wanted to build from the sticks they got in the river they were in. Stop pretending you can change it.

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