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Originally posted by ARTelevision
I must have a genetic mutation on this one. I'm aware of this desire for revenge, because I've read about it and I see it in people. I can't find even a trace of it inside of me.
I don't make that sort of connection with other people at all. Why would anyone care about someone else's life to that degree? If that person's life carries unpleasant associations with one's own it would seem having nothing further to do with that person would also be hard-wired into us by virtue of our membership in the animal kingdom. Avoidance is a natural behavior too.
I see superstition and this urge for "justice" as the prime movers in what makes us religious beings. Too bad about that. Really too bad. It's one of the sorry aspects of the imagined difference between being an animal and being "human".
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Art, I always respect and enjoy your thoughts on things like this.
I seem to be genetically programmed in the other direction. I seek what I call "Justice" not only for myself, but for others that I think have been "wronged". Maybe I am a little closer to that animal than you, but I can't seem to live with being stepped on, pushed aside, or considered lesser somehow.
I also hate to see others treated in such a manner. I have, and always will, stand up against those that feel it is some kind of right to cheapen the rest of us. And, much as I hate to admit this, I enjoy seeing someone having to take some of their own medicine.
My only defense seems to be that I view revenge as payment in kind. I'm kind of old Testament that way, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.