Righteous anger is a force for good.
We are all prisoners of our mental models and have blind spots. All humans tend to assume other people are like they are, which is always wrong at times. One of the ways people remain trapped psychologically is they expect a certain outcome, behave accordingly and thereby make it self-fulfilling prophecy. The path out is by allowing for other possibilities without counting on them. People who have been hurt tend to want a sure thing and there are no sure things. Someone hurt them, they decide "no one can be trusted" and they become the kind of awful person no one can trust, thus creating a situation in which the thing they crave cannot possibly exist. So they create "a sure thing" but not a sure thing that makes things better for them. Their own behavior guarantees they can count on other people being awful to them not because all other people are awful but because they are awful. This is not only individuals cutting their nose off to spite their face. This keeps s