GrumpyCatFace wrote:Smitty-48 wrote:GrumpyCatFace wrote:We all tell ourselves in the abstract, that our reaction would be revenge, but that doesn't seem to be the usual reaction.
If I'm honest with myself, I would be too wracked with grief to even look at the murderer, let alone confront him. This is why most revenge killings take place long after the actual event.
Not to mention that once you sink to gangsterism, you're just as likely to end up killing innocent bystanders, rendering you into the very thing which you are ostensibly seeking revenge against.
If it becomes entrenched, then you've got a cycle of violence which is extremely hard to break, with innocent people getting killed left and right.
That would not concern me, on a mission of revenge. I would be completely unconcerned about collateral damage - it's effectively a suicide mission, and no quarter would be given.
So be it, but you got more than one person in your family, and it's gonna be coming back on them, after you're gone, by your own doctrine.
Blood feud cycle of violence, feeds on itself, everybody's sons die, all of them, eye for an eye, until nobody has any left.
Your self righteousness is not only morally bankrupt, it's self defeating.