<story><title>Anger, Anxiety, Resentment, Stress, and Basic Humanity</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201708/anger-anxiety-resentment-stress-and-basic-humanity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grondilu</author><text>The ancients thought a lot about what makes a human &amp;quot;good&amp;quot;, and they came up with the notion of virtues[1].  If I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken, none of them was particularly oriented towards altruism.  It seems to me altruism was very much introduced by Christianism.  I vaguely recall that Nietzsche analyzed the subject in details, for instance in &amp;#x27;&amp;#x27;On the Genealogy of Morality&amp;#x27;&amp;#x27;[2].&lt;p&gt;Now, I&amp;#x27;m not saying one of this point of view is right and the other is wrong, but at the very least there is a debate to have.  Therefore it seems presumptuous to me to call one of them &amp;quot;basic humanity&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Philosophy, or in the present case psychology, should use accurate words as much as possible.  IMHO &amp;quot;Basic humanity&amp;quot; is not satisfactory in that regard.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Virtue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Virtue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Anger, Anxiety, Resentment, Stress, and Basic Humanity</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201708/anger-anxiety-resentment-stress-and-basic-humanity</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roceasta</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve come to realise that if I&amp;#x27;m run down or hungover or guilty in some way then my mind automatically starts to relive old resentments. I think it&amp;#x27;s a form of projection. There&amp;#x27;s a bad feeling internally and so memories are activated to &amp;#x27;explain&amp;#x27; the badness and direct blame elsewhere.</text></comment>