Reply #2: Good analysis.

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Anger is an escape and it is its own cover--a kind of all purpose salve.

The other problem arises from the fact that we humans react to emotion and later make up logical sounding reasons as to why our reaction was the correct response under the circumstances.
And then we react to the reaction by refusing to re-evaluate the original event and our response to it and spending a lot of effort on defending our positions as the only right and righteous position to take. (Suppressing the opposition)