What does “Anger is relative” mean?

Question

Here is the context from the book I am reading:

Character A: Watch your temper.

Character B: Anger is relative. Others are mad enough to kill, but not I.

What is meant by “Anger is relative?” It sounds incomplete. I know “relative” means “in comparison to,” but obviously the character doesn’t say what exactly anger is relative to.

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Answer 1

Anger is relative = what is “out of control angry” for one person is (possibly) not very angry for another. The effect of anger is not in the emotion itself, but how you deal with it.