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Hatred aimed at cruelty and complacency is not a character flaw to be therapized away. It is an honest moral response that registers wrongdoing at its true weight. The social demand for calm moderation often protects those who benefit from the wrong, because it makes the person who objects look like the problem.
Bitterness is usually treated as a failure to move on. It can instead be read as a stubborn fidelity to what was wrong. The bitter person declines the consoling narratives that let everyone else adjust. Seen this way, 'getting over it' is not maturity but a quiet act of accommodation.
The essayist treats Morrissey, singer of The Smiths, as a genuine moral influence rather than a mere taste. The case shows pop fandom working as real moral formation, where a star's uncompromising example does what argument alone does not.
Killing animals for food is mass violence that the majority has made invisible by treating it as neutral habit. Because the practice is the default, the person who refuses it is labeled the extremist or moralizer. Meanwhile the actual extremity, the killing itself, goes unexamined.
A Catholic sensibility of sin and fallenness, sharpened through Baudelaire's fusion of beauty and evil, grounds moral seriousness without believing that people or society are steadily improving. Recognizing evil as real and pervasive makes indignation coherent rather than naive. It also makes aesthetic intensity a way of confronting corruption instead of escaping it.