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Really and what type of revenge would you have taken? Would you have come to house his house one day with a gun and shot him?
The thread title says "Revenge is awesome and provides closure."
In this particular case, the "revenge" was far less substantial than the original offense. If that's all it took to provide closure for the OP, fine. Pretty cheap, though, and even petty.
But it really doesn't set an argument that revenge is the answer to every or any offense. What, revenge, for instance, should an Afghan kid take whose entire family was wiped out by an errant American bomb?
Really and what type of revenge would you have taken? Would you have come to house his house one day with a gun and shot him?
I was bullied when I was a kid too, and when I got out of the Army I found the guy that bullied me and beat the hell out of him. Its amazing what a little confidence can do for you.
The thread title says "Revenge is awesome and provides closure."
In this particular case, the "revenge" was far less substantial than the original offense. If that's all it took to provide closure for the OP, fine. Pretty cheap, though, and even petty.
But it really doesn't set an argument that revenge is the answer to every or any offense. What, revenge, for instance, should an Afghan kid take whose entire family was wiped out by an errant American bomb?
Yes to you it's petty but like I said it could've been worse given what this guy did to the OP.
I was bullied when I was a kid too, and when I got out of the Army I found the guy that bullied me and beat the hell out of him. Its amazing what a little confidence can do for you.
Well, that kinda makese sense to me because it was a one on one event and he saw who it was.
But what the OP did is just stupid IMO. That's not real revenge if the other person doesnt' know from whom he gets it. It was cowardly and cheap, he didn't even dare meeting him and look in his eyes. Cheap.
I was bullied when I was a kid too, and when I got out of the Army I found the guy that bullied me and beat the hell out of him. Its amazing what a little confidence can do for you.
I'll buy that. But was the well-deserved a$$ whupin' really "revenge"? Maybe there is a different word for what you did. Retaliation, maybe.....After all, if someone punches you in the nose and you punch back, that is not really revenge in the traditional sense.
Turning the other cheek is over-rated, too. Getting slapped on both cheeks gets a little old. Dunno for you, but I don't got but the two!
It's a blend, I guess. Vengeful people live in their own little hell. Retaliatory people seem to do OK, though, because their retaliation (like yours) is done face-to-face and the recipient knows full well who is delivering and why. And that may be good for both parties.
I was bullied when I was a kid too, and when I got out of the Army I found the guy that bullied me and beat the hell out of him. Its amazing what a little confidence can do for you.
OTOH, if he'd shot and killed you then, most states would have declared it self-defense.
Well, that kinda makese sense to me because it was a one on one event and he saw who it was.
But what the OP did is just stupid IMO. That's not real revenge if the other person doesnt' know from whom he gets it. It was cowardly and cheap, he didn't even dare meeting him and look in his eyes. Cheap.
I agree completely.
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I'll buy that. But was the well-deserved a$$ whupin' really "revenge"? Maybe there is a different word for what you did. Retaliation, maybe.....After all, if someone punches you in the nose and you punch back, that is not really revenge in the traditional sense.
Turning the other cheek is over-rated, too. Getting slapped on both cheeks gets a little old. Dunno for you, but I don't got but the two!
It's a blend, I guess. Vengeful people live in their own little hell. Retaliatory people seem to do OK, though, because their retaliation (like yours) is done face-to-face and the recipient knows full well who is delivering and why. And that may be good for both parties.
I'll agree with this too, but really putting a label on it is just playing semantics IMO.. Retaliation / Revenge = 6 or 3+3.. At the end of the day its done.
OTOH, if he'd shot and killed you then, most states would have declared it self-defense.
Yeah, its better to just choke on it for the rest of your life.. Tell yourself how you're a "better person," and how you refuse to stoop to his level and all that happy horseshiit.
It's funny how the tone of this thread has changed from "taking revenge is wrong", to "that's not real revenge".
Well, it isn't! Revenge is synonym to EYE ON EYE.
Not plotting something from far away which angers the other person a little but he doesn't know why stuff happens to him. It is not real revenge IMO. OP is a coward. At least be a MAN and stand behind the transsexual and say "THATS WHAT YOU GET!" or the like.
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I'll buy that. But was the well-deserved a$$ whupin' really "revenge"? Maybe there is a different word for what you did. Retaliation, maybe.....After all, if someone punches you in the nose and you punch back, that is not really revenge in the traditional sense.
