Do you think that retribution and vengeance are just signs of personal weakness?

[msc545]

I ask because so many people endorse these things, and it seems to me that being able to manage your anger appropriately is a much better way of coping with this. But you tell me what you think.

[lightbulb27]

not sure. Certainly lack of oreintation to the greater I am. I've seen people able to let go of vegence, for this reason. But that is a tall order to let go.

You could aruge that failing to get the other back is a sign of weakness. I'm not sure it is about weakness, per se.

It takes a higher calling, and possibly greater purpose, not to seek vengence.

[slatyb]

Of course they are. They are the actions of someone who never left childhood.

[7Phoenix7]

Hmm… I don’t think retribution and vengeance are always signs of weakness. Sometimes they come from pain…betrayal… or a feeling that justice was never given.

But I do think staying consumed by revenge can become weakness if it starts controlling you more than the person who hurt you ever did.

[thegreenyogi]

It can be. I think they're not needed or at least it's not necessary to act on them because life will teach all the lessons needed.

[Staximus]

There are times when retribution and vengeance are completely appropriate, And then there’s times to just let shit go

[msc545]

They are never appropriate.

[Sevenpointfive]

i think that's why the idea of a police force got started. to stop injustice. they are the retribution and the vengeance. but it's not that way anymore.

[msc545]

Retribution and vengeance do not stop anything.

[Anonymous]

Nah, 30 years ago you'd bury the local child molester and be a hero

Now you'd be punished for similar because the system is riddled with them (it's part of why birth rates are falling)

[msc545]

Acting as badly as the local child molester did is not something that should be rewarded.