139. Why Do We Get Angry?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2023-03-26

40 分钟
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What’s the difference between anger and indignation? What’s Angela’s problem with turkey sandwiches? And why wasn’t a "No Stupid Questions" listener angry at the men who assaulted him? Take the Seven Deadly Sins survey: freakonomics.com/nsq-sins/

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  • Note to never offer Angela any form of turkey.

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.

  • No stupid questions today on the show.

  • What makes people angry?

  • Now I'm getting pissed off at your challenge.

  • Now you're getting kind of worked up about it.

  • Angela.

  • In our pursuit of understanding more deeply what are traditionally called the seven deadly sins, we have come today to wrath, more commonly known as anger.

  • Sounds so much better as wrath, though, don't you think?

  • Let's call it wrath.

  • And this brings us to a question that we received from a listener named Grant Ashby.

  • And I suggest that if you aren't already sitting, you sit down.

  • So Grant writes to say, I used to read stories of people showing unbelievable compassion and forgiveness, even when they were the victim of a huge crime or misfortune.

  • I was always slightly confused as to what made them want to forgive, until last year.

  • He writes, I was violently robbed with a machete in London.

  • Oh, my God.

  • And ended up in hospital with severed muscles, bone, tendons, and needing emergency surgery.

  • When I woke up, I felt gratitude that I was alive and that I had my family around me.

  • My family were angry, but not really me.