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The creation of demons or Bad Guys is a crucial ability in story telling. If you're bad at it you'll create terrible 2 dimensional characters. Your life will be lower fidelity and also feel repetitive with an Evil Baddy of the Week plot structure.

Having a degree of control over the demon creation process allows you to channel it in useful ways. Like game design, writing novels, film making, etc... You can also use your understanding of the process to deconstruct with the demon creation process in others.

In the former, the "Daemon" is used to channel creative energy. In the latter, the knowledge of "Daemon Slaying" is used to form functional working groups via politics. The fully actualized artist and politician both are experts in demonology.

Unskillful usage of anger is like slamming all the keys on the keyboard and "winning" by producing the most soundwaves or pressing the most keys in a second. It's an all or nothing runaway process b/c it's unskilled, not because it's powerful.

It's like when Aang was learning firebending and accidentally burned Katara. We arrest our development when we feel like we'll go "out of control" with the intensity.

The 'firebender' inside us is oppressed to the extent that we can't deal with fire because we're afraid of everything going up in flames. Forgiveness is the cooling power that doesn't let things out of hand.

The fire is suppressed because its power is feared. Its "power" though is fake. We saw the dropping knife and remember it as a slicing sword. The flame is remembered as a demon so fire is banned.

The problem with being afraid of your own feelings of anger is that in order to suppress them you have to model yourself as having virtues you don't actually have while also closing yourself off to higher empathy.