each instance of anger demands making a choice:
* Respond with hostile action, including overt violence
* Respond with hostile inaction, such as withdrawing or stonewalling
* Initiate a dominance contest
* Harbor resentment
* Work to better understand and constructively resolve the issue
While the early philosophers were not concerned with possible harmful effects of the suppression of anger, modern psychologists point out that suppression of anger may have harmful effects. The suppressed anger may find another outlet, such as a physical symptom, or become more extreme. John W. Fiero cites Los Angeles riots of 1992 as an example of sudden, explosive release of suppressed anger. The anger was then displaced as violence against those who had nothing to do with the matter. Another example of widespread deflection of anger from its actual cause toward a scapegoat, Fiero says, was the blaming of Jews for the economic ills of Germany by the Nazis.
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