Some rationalists might not experience fury or naturally have abrasive, bulldozing personalities. Others might not be this intense but still have a great situational fierceness. Certainly, it is possible for non-rationalists to be this way too, although they are to one degree or another deluded by assumptions they find appealing. A rationalist can be in the right now matter what they feel so long as they do not forsake reason. Lesser people could easily find all of this intimidating, terrifying, or upsetting.
There is the fact that them disliking or fearing it does not have anything to do with whether it is good or bad, along with how, if they do not think all intensity is evil, they must believe that there is some arbitrary level of intensity that they know makes it wrong. Their feelings are irrelevant and they can only assume that any amount of intensity at all is evil because of supposed cruelty, arrogance, or selfishness. In each of these cases, intensity does not require anything erroneous; it can be present without irrationality, cruelty, arrogance, and so on.
The person who cannot handle someone else's intensity, which is especially irrational if they themselves are intense but in an emotionalistic way, likely prioritizes their own subjective self-esteem or peace over the truth, and of course he or she deserves no respite from the very torment of that ferocity or potency. How could they? They reject reality or are not satisfied with it enough to submit to it. What else could they have to stand on in order to deserve accommodation other than reality? Their hypocrisy is immense.
Since reality does not depend on the preferences of those who object to intensity, they are the ones who need to change their hearts, remain silent, or at least never tell anyone to stop being intense out of emotional offense--or as much as believe this is the case in the privacy of their thoughts. Anyone else is free to do as they please as long as they believe nothing irrational and violate no moral obligation. Conscience and social norms do not make anything right or wrong, ferocity included. Someone rationalistic who has an extreme intensity of personality cannot be in error because another person is bothered by them.
Should they wish to relent, a fiery or even sadistic (if they control this correctly) rationalist is not necessarily wrong. It is just that they are not intellectually or morally problematic just because they have intense personalities. They are not making assumptions. They are not slaves to emotions. They do not yield from the truth to social pressures. Rationalists are the superior individuals, if anything. Anyone else is either in the wrong or at best to some extent at the mercy of those who do not share their preferences.
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