[In regard to the first part, anyway. He's once again glad that Michael seems to take that okay, although his next questions are definitely not easy to answer.]
Were this not a situation where they could truly be an outside influence, rather than your own emotions or desires, then I would say yes. But what you're dealing with is more complicated, and so I can't give you an answer either way.
[It's clear in his tone that he wishes he could, but he can't. The outside influence of the other being, as well as the potential of additional effects caused by Hope messing up the resurrection, takes this more into the realm of an external influence such as would happen during an event, and Lance doesn't consider it fair to expect people to resist them.
However, that said--]
For now, though, it might be best not to separate the issues; resisting a compulsion or urge from an external source is different from resisting your own desires in terms of personal responsibility and culpability, but the mechanism for doing so is pretty much the same. So if you go into it with the attitude that you can think about and remember the reasons why you don't want to act on your anger, you have the best chance of successfully controlling it whatever the cause.
[And unfortunately, it's pretty much the only option right now.]
Remembering the reasons you have for not acting, and trying to keep those in mind as being more important to you than the immediate but temporary satisfaction you would gain from giving into anger, is the best strategy to try first.
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[In regard to the first part, anyway. He's once again glad that Michael seems to take that okay, although his next questions are definitely not easy to answer.]
Were this not a situation where they could truly be an outside influence, rather than your own emotions or desires, then I would say yes. But what you're dealing with is more complicated, and so I can't give you an answer either way.
[It's clear in his tone that he wishes he could, but he can't. The outside influence of the other being, as well as the potential of additional effects caused by Hope messing up the resurrection, takes this more into the realm of an external influence such as would happen during an event, and Lance doesn't consider it fair to expect people to resist them.
However, that said--]
For now, though, it might be best not to separate the issues; resisting a compulsion or urge from an external source is different from resisting your own desires in terms of personal responsibility and culpability, but the mechanism for doing so is pretty much the same. So if you go into it with the attitude that you can think about and remember the reasons why you don't want to act on your anger, you have the best chance of successfully controlling it whatever the cause.
[And unfortunately, it's pretty much the only option right now.]
Remembering the reasons you have for not acting, and trying to keep those in mind as being more important to you than the immediate but temporary satisfaction you would gain from giving into anger, is the best strategy to try first.