The deed is done. What do you gain by seeking revenge? Discuss.
The deed is done. What do you gain by seeking revenge? Discuss.
It is a primitive form of so-called justice, to inflict the same or greater level of pain on an enemy, the core kill or be killed. It is the 'final victory', a comeupence for the wrongful deed doen, that deed being deemed wrongful, of course, by the victor. It has been refined over the ages from beheading to crucifiction, to hanging and lethal injection. It has at times been justified by the need to remove true evil from the face of the earth, protect society; necessitating in genocide, slavery, and wholesale slaughter.
Interesting is the fact that most first world traditions carry this "eye for an eye" belief, while most Native American cultures did and do not; there is no evidence first nations even had jails and lore and spoken tradition indicates law and order was kept through no more than peer pressure.
There is a Tusing'ah phrase that translates "to hold vengeance in the heart is to consume an burning coal."...kind of a "turn the other cheek" way of thinking.
So in answer to the question? None, it serves no useful purpose than this mythical thing called "closure", the new neologism for getting even.
The deed is done. What do you gain by seeking revenge? Discuss.
Emotional satisfaction.
I've always thought that people who need revenge for emotional satisfaction are lacking something in their personalities...feeling inferior...whatever.
Your boyfriend cheats on you, so you break out all his car windows. People who have a beef with someone so they puncture their tires. Why would someone do that? I just don't understand the mindset. I think they're some form of loony.
There's that. But there's also killing the pedophile rapist that raped your kid. That's revenge, and that's for emotional and psychological satisfaction.
I understand the urge to do that. What I don't understand is the "doing". Why would a parent risk going to prison and being unavailable to their child for the rest of her little life in order to exact a revenge that the court's going to take care of anyhow?
Live Not A Lie.
A life that is lived has to have meaning.
I understand the urge to do that. What I don't understand is the "doing". Why would a parent risk going to prison and being unavailable to their child for the rest of her little life in order to exact a revenge that the court's going to take care of anyhow?
What? Where's "Grasshopper" in there?
The deed is done. What do you gain by seeking revenge? Discuss.
I think people do it to have the last word. In their mind, revenge is justice. If it can't/won't happen in the courtroom,n vengeful people aren't patient enough to wait for karma. People who use revenge to solve their problems have more problems than revenge will ever solve.
To reclaim a little piece of myself.I've always thought that people who need revenge for emotional satisfaction are lacking something in their personalities...feeling inferior...whatever.
Your boyfriend cheats on you, so you break out all his car windows. People who have a beef with someone so they puncture their tires. Why would someone do that? I just don't understand the mindset. I think they're some form of loony.
I think people do it to have the last word. In their mind, revenge is justice. If it can't/won't happen in the courtroom,n vengeful people aren't patient enough to wait for karma. People who use revenge to solve their problems have more problems than revenge will ever solve.