egos. A sense of humor is the opposite of wrath’s reaction, because the one who can laugh at himself has enough distance from what he wants to be able to deflate his own claims and see them as comically excessive. He is not so intensely concerned with pushing his own way that he cannot step back and see himself as others see him. Wrath narrows our vision of the world, even as it slants our sense of justice toward selfishness. When we can joke about a situation, we have to be comfortable enough with who we are to laugh at our claims on the world, rather than being consumed by them.
Laughing is helpful, but it can make someone not take the situation seriously.
