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%REVENGE 850611
Revenge is not an act of love. Revenge is an act of
anger in which a vengeful person expresses violent
feelings in violent ways. Vengeance is an attempt to even
the score of victimizing behavior; the reverse of
favoritism. Revenge presumes a calculative approach to
human relationships with a concern to keep negative scores
balanced.
Revenge is rationalized with statements to the effect
that punishment will motivate people to avoid doing that
which occasioned the revenge. Such a rationalization is
based upon the assumption that human behavior is motivated
by reasoned consideration of probable consequences. Their
rationalization of revenge is to be taken seriously only
if one believes that people seek ways to avoid revenge.
Such a belief is not supported by actual patterns of human
behavior of revenge and counter-revenge.
Revenge intensifies the alienation which occasioned
the previous offense and so increased the probability of
additional offenses. The probable consequence of revenge
is counter-revenge. According to the rationalization of
revenge people should avoid revenge because the probable
consequences are revenge and counter-revenge. Revenge
leads to the disintegration of the community and by any
reasoned consideration should be avoided; yet all to often
it is sought with great passion.
To achieve the integration of our communities we need
to reveal the fallacies in the rationalization of revenge
and the ways in which seeking revenge undermine the unity
and integrity of communities. The actual, rather than the
theoretical, consequences of taking revenge need to be
documented and their dynamics need to be understood.
Through collusions rationalizations are too often accepted
as descriptive of realities, when actual experience is
quite the contrary.
These considerations are relevant to the treatment of
prisoners, terrorists, and to children who might grow up
to be prisoners and terrorists. They are also relevant to
the formulation of international policies relating to
unruly nations. Revenge involving nuclear weapons should
be a matter of world-wide concern.
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