Anger is caveman emotion which is still useful in caveman situations. If someone is in the middle of attacking your family, you stop them, even at the cost of y

Anger is caveman emotion which is still useful in caveman situations. If someone is in the middle of attacking your family, you stop them, even at the cost of your own safety and quite possibly with deadly force. You don't sit and talk to him about how his intergenerational disadvantage led him to his current choices. Now, when planning public safety, this would be a bad response even for strictly selfish reasons of not wanting to suffer crimes. If tough policing is proven to reduce crime, do tough policing, you don't want to become San Francisco. If giving opportunities or education in jails helps, do that rather than sacrificing your own safety to indulge your understandable anger. And so on. There is even space for empathy with people who have never been given a chance. In civilized situations there are superior ways to motivate change - justice, snapping out of complacency, enlightened self interest, striving for success. Your boss may be an asshole, but rage quitting could jeopardize your visa or chances of an internal transfer. You need to calm your caveman brain and call upon values instilled upon you by centuries of civilization to get to a good outcome for yourself and others. Unless again, civilization has already failed you, then old ways may be necessary.