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/
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.