twofish

From the context of the conscious mind:
If I'm angry with you, the personality of defense or predatory aggression now has me in its grip. It's dominant from a neurological perspective. It's suppressing all other personalities. So now when you talk to me, any word that you say that I could interpret as irritating is going to be much more obvious, and anything that you say that would be peacemaking, I would regard cynically. And I would be looking in my interactions with you for pathways to victory. And it wouldn't be all that I would see that, but also, if you asked me to justify my actions while we were arguing, even if I became cruel, that drive that is a personality would have all those arguments at hand too. So it's a full fledge personality, also has it's own emotional systems because if i'm gripped by rage, I could easily be happy to see you suffer. But if i'm gripped by compassion, seeing you suffer is going to put me in pain.
- Jordan Peterson