Rage Against the Cashier and MMDA too

If you have to manage your anger, it's probably rage.

Anger is an outburst of emotion that shows itself in response to a specific situation.

An outburst doesn't last long.

It's there and then it isn't.

It doesn't stay too long.

If it does; if it lasts; if you're still festering, you're not angry at the situation anymore, you're angry at something else.

And the situation in front of you is there to remind you of it;  it's not necessarily the cause of it.

If your anger doesn't dissipate at the instance / moment you expressed it, and you still attack / get violent, if you can't cut the chain reaction of attack - either verbal, physical, etc. - it's rage.

The father of the customer below was interviewed on TV explaining the reason for his son's "outburst."

"Kung aso nga matapakan mo nangangalmot, tao pa kaya."

Which makes sense.

But look, if you step on a dog - it's true its initial reaction is to attack - for sure. But it doesn't continually do so unless the dog feels it is still being threatened or under threat.

The dog may bite or claw or bark, or growl, show its teeth or attack as its initial reaction. But the dog stops right there.

A dog has a good sense - unless it is rabid or crazy - to check if it is threatened, if it is in danger.

If the dog knows he is not, he retreats probably still grumbling or growling - as a show of force or that he is ready to pounce if in case you make a move. But it doesn't continually attack unless it feels it should.

The human below attacks the female cashier, not once, not twice, not three times but four. But wait, there's more! He attacks the fifth time as outlined by the @gmanews reporter. And the cashier doesn't fight back after the first attack, the second, or the third or the fourth or the fifth.

That is not anger.

That is rage.

Also, notice that the human claims he is "willing to apologize" on live national TV but doesn't.

That he admits he "MAYBE" made a mistake, that he could have reacted less violently BUT he still puts the blame on the cashier by saying "..kaso yung sobrang dating nya lang po kasi sobrang taas."




Similar to the below situation, rage is there even in the absence of threat.

What is present is the pervasive feeling from the raging individual that he has been slighted, that what was done to him is WRONG and it is now his god-given right to demand that the situation be right (according to his version of rightness) from the people he is raging at.



These raging dudes do not need anger management. They need to get what they deserve.