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Suppose that you are having a disagreement with someone and you are frustrated and angry with them. It seems likely that this frustration would meaningfully harm your ability to reason well.
If so, similar to what we do in response to cognitive biases, it seems appropriate to make some adjustments. For example, given susceptibility to the planning fallacy, supposing we originally assume it'll take 20 minutes to get to the airport, we might adjust this towards a more pessimistic estimate of 45 minutes. I would think that it'd make sense to do something similar in response to noticing a feeling of frustration in yourself during a disagreement with someone.
I've seen surprisingly little discussion of this idea.
"Though ye be angry, sin not;" yet here is evidently a distinction made, between anger and sin"
I would be more comfortable replacing "sin" with the less theologically loaded "action" to arrive at a simple principle: don't act upon decisions when angry.
Montaigne expresses a similar idea to you - of adjusting timelines in the appearance of anger: if he appears to be getting angry he begs that the other person to "let me alone " (i.e. walk away) and he will return the favor:
I can easily contain myself from entering into one o... (read more)