I never believed that cliche to begin with. Criminals are punished on a daily basis with incarceration or death, and surely you cannot even begin to argue that imprisonment or execution is not a 'wrong.' It is not only desireable but necessary to commit these wrongs against those who have wronged you. It's true, I still lose. However, I will have lost completely if I allow my enemy to get away with whatever he/she did, and my enemy would have won. That is not an equilibrium position. If I lose, so shall my enemy lose, that our scales will remain balanced.
If you enjoy having people take advantage of you without any reprisal, be my guest. I, on the other hand, am not so foolish.
In short, I take the other mantra: "No one should fuck with you and live."
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Sure I have a heart; it's floating in a jar in my closet, along with my tonsils, my appendix, and all of the other useless organs I ripped out.
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