[security: wrath] Emotional escalation bypasses reason and authorization checks

[AryDaniel]

WRATH

Wrath is an instant, quick-response emotional rise that will cut off your ability to think critically, diminish your capacity for empathy and override your internal checks and balances. Once one has lost the ability to think critically, they gain higher-level permissions (on a temporary basis) to aggressive impulses. This gives one the ability to do things that would otherwise not be approved of because they go against your ethical values and the social norms that govern the way people relate to each other.

Wrath behaves differently than a premeditated aggression because it is a reactionary response that is compressed and favours immediate action rather than an appropriate response. We currently have no mechanisms for rate-limiting, cooling time or rollback once you begin to escalate.

[AryDaniel]

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
- James 1:20

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned
- Buddha

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- Seneca, De Ira

Anybody can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy
- Aristotle