The Ultimate Evil: Anger

Anger is the root of all evil. There are no situations in which it should be encouraged. Anger strips people of their humanity and renders them slaves to its whim. Anger can cause rash decisions, flushed faces, mass murder, hurtful words, high blood pressure, heart problems, war, and death metal. There is no good side to anger and those who utilize it, encourage it, or even excuse it, should be ashamed. Without anger we would obviously live in a utopia.
Anger has destroyed many poor, misunderstood individuals. There have been several rulers, with admittedly somewhat questionable characters, whose actions were distasteful to their subjects. As a result, their people faced the temptation of anger. They could have resisted but they let anger obscure their reason. Many a ruler who could have been changed through compassion has been lost to death as a result of their people`s anger. Vlad the Impaler was one such man. Vlad, regrettably, chose to have over two thousand individuals impaled and left to die over a period of days. His policies terrorized his people and they, wrongfully, let anger cloud their compassion for Vlad. It wasn`t his fault that he ordered these unsavory deeds. It was society`s fault for the violent culture in which Vald grew up. Rather than forgiving him and accepting their king, faults and all, they let anger rule their minds and shish kabobed Vlad.
Anger is never able to tell us anything helpful and we must suppress it at all times. The people in the South might have been living in slavery but this was no excuse to allow the toxin that is anger into their minds. After all, they had food and water most of the time. They were treated like they were somewhat human. Most had been raised since childhood to be content with this station in life. The slaves should have been able to remain content and loving despite their situation. Unfortunately, they listened to their anger and it poisoned their minds.
What is worse, being a slave or being angry? Clearly the slaves didn`t understand the horrors of anger. Even if they found the position of slavery too much to bear they could have done as MLK did, and protested non-violently. Surely the South, who`s economy was entirely based around slave labor, would have realized their mistake and ended slavery. After all, what normal individual wouldn`t potentially leave their family with no source of income and endanger the futures of their children? Especially for the sake of people who the individual had been taught were less than human. Sadly, the slaves of the South did not realize this and gave in to their horrible, miserable, deplorable, anger. As a result, the War of Northern Aggression began.
Anger is an insidious, odious, malicious, poisonous thing that addicts the mind to its presence and cannot be utilized for any good. Athletes will often to use anger to “focus themselves” and “overcome obstacles”. This is all malarkey for two reasons. First, when athletes “focus themselves" they create a situation in which the other athletes must also succumb to anger to “focus” in-order to match the elevated ability of the opponent. Hence anger perpetuates anger. Second, an examination of athletes who “use” anger reveals something amazing. They repeatedly place themselves in situations requiring the use of their anger! A NFL linebacker for example, repeatedly puts himself in situations where he must “overcome”. Hence, anger`s addictive quality is clear.
Some might say anger is like all other emotions. Some say that anger has an opposite emotion in joy and that a person can only truly appreciate joy if he or she has appreciated anger. This is ridiculous. Anger is completely different from every other emotion ever felt. Unlike sadness which has a counterpart in happiness, anger has no real comparable emotion. It does not matter that joy, anger`s supposed “counterpart”, is as addictive and replicative as anger is. Surely discouraging the feeling of anger, as we have been teaching our children for the past few decades, couldn`t possibly have negative effects on our perception of joy. Clearly this is not the reason that the average happiness in the United States has been consistently declining for the past few years. Dulling our sense of anger has no effect on our ability to feel and appreciate joy.
Anger is literally the Hitler of emotions. It dominates the conscious and pushes all positive emotions into small camps of the mind. Think of all the men who could have been saved if people had just forgiven, like Hitler, for example. There is no scenario in which anger alerts us to injustice, rather it simply drives us to create more anger for no reason. It cannot be used and cannot create anything good. It is the cloud without a silver lining. If anger was forgotten there would be no effect on our perception of joy and we would live in a utopia. Anger is bad and you should feel bad for feeling it.