The Red Mist

An influential critique of anger holds that comes at an important epistemic cost. In particular, feeling angry typically makes risk less visible to us. This is anger’s ‘red mist.’ These costs, critics suggest, arguably outweigh the benefits commonly ascribed anger. essay argues importantly misleading. not because it underestimates benefits, but rather overlooks fact red mist performs a crucial moral function. By concealing risk, helps protect dignity and self-respect those who live under severe unchosen risk. function vitally in non-ideal circumstances, where many are unjustly subjected dignity-impairing And irreplaceable, cannot readily be performed by other political emotions, such as hope. Beyond providing novel defence anger, this argument has broader upshot. Anger’s reveals ignorance always problematic politics. Accordingly, should treated—as standardly been case—as unmitigated evil. first instance, our efforts better spent ascertaining when problem, when, instead, felicitous