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    On Not Being “Worth It”
    Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10 (n/a). 2023.
    This paper is about the common thought that anger is “not worth it” because of the bad effects that it has on the angry person. It contends that this common thought is sometimes deeply puzzling, because although it looks to be a thought about anger’s unfittingness, it is hard to see what such bad effects have to do with fittingness. The paper gives an account of the elusive connection between bad effects and fit. In brief, it argues that the thought that anger is “not worth it” has to do with th…Read more