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While law doesn't have place for revenge in a civilised society and rightly so, the need for revenge/retribution I suspect is quite innate. It's healthy to try to forgive but it's quite difficult, almost like you can't fool yourselves into thinking you aren't hungry.
Do you honestly believe revenge helps you?
While law doesn't have place for revenge in a civilised society and rightly so, the need for revenge/retribution I suspect is quite innate. It's healthy to try to forgive but it's quite difficult, almost like you can't fool yourselves into thinking you aren't hungry.
Do you honestly believe revenge helps you?
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what about making sure the person who did it to you does not profit from it?
You kind of answered the question: revenge does not help the victim. It might feel necessary, but it does not actually help.
(Yes, I know, masks aren't the perfect example because they do have a [smaller] prophylactic benefit to the wearer as well. But if they didn't, it would still be a good idea to wear them for disease containment, and "lol it doesn't benefit me" would be a dubious argument for the same reason.)
While law doesn't have place for revenge in a civilised society and rightly so, the need for revenge/retribution I suspect is quite innate. It's healthy to try to forgive but it's quite difficult, almost like you can't fool yourselves into thinking you aren't hungry.
Do you honestly believe revenge helps you?
As a young man I encountered many people who were unkind, told me that my goals were impossible and mocked me for my ambition. Now that I have succeeded at those aims and continued to grow as a human being it is a great feeling to encounter those people in life and see that they haven't been as successful as I have. I can't help but think that I perhaps wouldn't of made it through all those hard years struggling had more people believed in me, the desire to prove them wrong and get my revenge remains one of my greatest sources of motivation.
In which we learn that forgiveness is a suitcase word (prone to useless debate as each party uses a different definition) https://alexvermeer.com/unpacking-suitcase-words/
Earlier quoted context omitted.
what about making sure the person who did it to you does not profit from it?
You kind of answered the question: revenge does not help the victim. It might feel necessary, but it does not actually help.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
what about making sure the person who did it to you does not profit from it?
You kind of answered the question: revenge does not help the victim. It might feel necessary, but it does not actually help.
In which we learn that forgiveness is a suitcase word (prone to useless debate as each party uses a different definition) https://alexvermeer.com/unpacking-suitcase-words/
Anything else, that everybody is clear and agrees on, might as well not be discussed at all...