The problem with revenge (including something like this) is that it conditions you to believe that you can deal with your problems by being a dick.
And in the end, nothing gets resolved...but now you're a dick...a pathological dick.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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