Anger starts out as a weakness in a modern context, but it can be made into a strength. So its not inherently so either a strength nor a weakness.
I think there's hot anger, and cold anger... First type, it's intense and often fleeting. Second one accumulates over time, maybe from repeated injustices, or feelings of being powerless, etc. Overall, anger is a more destructive passion than it is "constructive". Which is great, if you want and need to be destructive. That's why it often boils down to what causes and motivates your anger, what feeds it. There's spoiled brat anger, there's anger coming from ego and competitiveness, there's righteous anger... Learning to channel your anger in the right direction is smth very hard but extremely powerful. You can fuck up immensely, be consumed by it or destroy things that shouldn't be destroyed, or achieve great things, maybe even greatness.
Learning to control my anger has always been difficult for me. It's mostly hot anger that I get, and if it gets past a certain limit it's always a weakness instead of a strength. It has solved a lot of problems, especially short term ones/instant gratification, and helped in other ways as well. However, if I had to give a verdict, I'd say I've always regarded my anger as more of a weakness than a strength.
Personally, I don't think it's good to try to suppress anger too much, I think over time that turns to bitterness and unhappiness. The anger should be released somehow, just releasing it in the least destructive way possible is the challenge. When I was a child I was constantly angry and controlling it was a real problem, but I think people took it less seriously because I was a girl so I was never stigmatised because of it, and now luckily I have grown out of that.
I agree that there is hot anger and cold anger, and both feel very different. Hot anger is the liability, the only thing it's really good for is angry sex, but it goes as quickly as it comes. For me cold anger doesn't increase over time, but just remains constant in the background, if it's taking the form of a project to focus on. Or if it's taking the form of revenge then I can forget about it for months, even years, only coming back to it when the time is right. I'm not even sure it's a form of anger really, it's almost like an excuse to have fun.
Obviously you idiots have lost touch with reality. So I will break it down for you.
Online anger. Such as this chat room serves no purpose. Of course everyone even online people can become angry is some form or fashion. Our anger has evolved threw millions of years of evolution. The evolution of emotional anger was not influenced by the internet. We can also feel irritated by other people’s beliefs, opinions and actions online. This form of anger is what most people will experience communicating online with someone. That being said it does us very little good getting mad online.
Anger is a natural, though sometimes unwanted or irrational, emotion that everybody experiences from time to time. Anger experts describe the emotion as a primary, natural emotion which has evolved as a way of surviving and protecting yourself from what is considered a wrong-doing.
Mild anger may be brought on by feeling tired, stressed or irritated, in fact we are more likely to feel irritated if our basic human needs (food, shelter, sex, sleep, etc.) are not met or are jeopardised in some way. We may become angry when reacting to frustration, criticism or a threat and this is not necessarily a bad or inappropriate reaction.
We can also feel irritated by other people’s beliefs, opinions and actions online. This form of anger is what most people will experience communicating online with someone.
To sum it up. No intelligent, rational person. Would ever consider anger, to be a weakness. Unless you are only speaking of certain circumstances. Like, the internet or general arguments between two individuals.
It saddens me to see how many of you are so clueless and out of touch with reality. lol wow
i can sum up reality for you too, anger is a main cause to which why i was way more fucked up in the past
anger is only useful when its ok to beat the shit out of someone because they looked at you when you are in a bad mood.
well other people seem disagree with the above statement and make your life less pleasant
this is ofc impulsive anger mostly due lacking cognitive empathy
i think there is a lack of communication on the subject of what you consider anger to be. because once you can control/channel anger into something else, i do not consider this to be anger... because it doesn't look like anger, its channeled into something. its either something that brings you adrenaline(for fun), or its just frustration, not anger.
anger is lashing out and acting. and then you lose control and do not stop until you are over it
anger would be useful if you are a primitive caveman where beating up the leader will give you pussy.
fighting on a boxing arena(for example) is not anger, its channeled, its not impulsive, its controlled. you dont feel angry, you feel motivated and can see what is going on. you don't just act.
if you dont act on your angry impulse, then how is this anger and not frustration?
Anger is neither a strength nor a weakness, it’s simply a useful emotion because it signals something is wrong. To determine if anger is good or bad you need to consider the factors on each side of it: why you’re angry and how do you express the anger.
If used constructively to make positive changes, anger can be a strength. If used to maintain a negative status quo or for destruction it’s a weakness.
Edit: rage {may be} a different animal and signals something else
Not all rage is a by-product of anger, it can also be related to medical problems.
Generally rage is an accumulation of unexpressed anger and perceived disrespect that after repeatedly being ignored, finally comes to the surface. Expressing anger is about controlled communication when one feels threatened, rage is the opposite and denotes a loss of control.
Bottom-line, rage is destructive, whether from anger or not, so in response to your original question it's a weakness, imo.