I can only speak for me, but first a disclaimer:
I am a pretty normal person. I have a job I enjoy, a girl who loves me, and a family that supports me. I would be willing to die for them all. Yet with all this going for me...
I have had occasions to get revenge. The ones I regret are the ones I didn't take. You get a small measure of payback, and it feels great. Plus, there's nothing in nature to suggest that we ought to act otherwise, except for the masturbatory leavings of some stuffed up "intellectual".
People make the counterintuitive claim that we should deny this part of ourselves and "rise above it", yet the people I know who espouse this also do not believe in any sort of divine authority or purpose to existence.
Happiness comes from accepting who and what you are.
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