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Old Oct 30, 2007, 05:57 PM
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Ah, then you get into the assertive realm, Dr.Clay :-) I think the anger (good thing) is in assertion, and agression is their bad-mannered cousin, related to "acting out" (kind of opposite to being assertive in my mind). While it's true one can be verbally aggressive, I think of aggression as taking over the other guy's country :-) Must have something to do with my history degree. I see nothing "good" about aggression, at its best it's bad manners/minor boundary crossing; at its worst, abuse/assault. Anger is merely a feeling and one learns to express it either in the positive assertion or in aggression.

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