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Posted on 10/14/2025 2:14:14 PM PDT by Pontiac
Revenge is an act designed to inflict harm on someone because they’ve inflicted harm on us. We could yearn for anything after we’ve been mistreated, like a scoop of ice cream, a nap, or a relaxing massage. But what most of us really want is the other person’s pain—and for them to know that their pain is because of the pain they’ve caused us.
The desire for revenge is the root motivation for almost all forms of human violence. From childhood bullying to intimate partner violence, urban violence, police brutality, mass shootings, violent extremism, genocide, and even war, perpetrators of violence almost always believe they’re victims seeking justice.
Recent neuroscience discoveries reveal a chilling picture: Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Brain imaging studies show that grievances—real or imagined perceptions of injustice, disrespect, betrayal, shame, or victimization—activate the “pain network,” specifically the anterior insula. The brain doesn’t like pain and tries to rebalance itself with pleasure. Pleasure can come from many things, but humans have evolved to feel intense pleasure from hurting the people who hurt us, or their proxies.
In more modern times, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao achieved a combined death toll of some 102 million people by waging a world war that included murdering—or ordering or encouraging the murder, torture, or starvation of—approximately 38.5 million people who they believed wronged them for things like betraying their nation (Jews in Germany), refusing to give up their land and possessions (peasants and landlords in communist Russia and China), and disrespecting or opposing them. By my estimate, of the top 20 human atrocities of all time, identified by researcher Matthew White in his book Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History, 19 were the result of compulsive revenge-seeking. They left an estimated 336 million people dead.
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But it is interesting research
Leftists…their TDS has destroyed their brains!
The Heavy Metal Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mHST4Q4kTU&list=RD9mHST4Q4kTU&start_radio=1
No mention of the hundreds of millions slain by muslims since 620AD.
Considering that the author says things that I know are not true about things I know about, I will assume that he is also saying things that are not true about things I do not know about.
On the prevention side, this might include things like school programs and public health campaigns to warn about the addictive dangers and risks of revenge use.
On the treatment side, interventions could include revenge addiction counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, peer support, self-help strategies, and, one day, maybe even medications like the naltrexone and GLP-1 drugs (such as Ozempic) that have been shown to control compulsive cravings for food.
The imagined wrongs that living White People have inflicted on Black People seem to be causing Revenge Addiction in the Urban Black people.
This desire for Revenge is politically driven propaganda by Communist seeking to bring down the United States by creating chaos.
This desire for Revenge is politically driven propaganda by Communist seeking to bring down the United States by creating chaos.
And as Nietzsche said, ‘Out of chaos, comes order.’
Muslin religiously motivated atrocities are irrelevant to his research.
So much of scientific research today is fabricated.
You may be right.
RE: Sydney Sweeney is okay with that.
We men are so nice.
We would never deny women the chance to get their licks. 🍦 🍭
Imaging of the TDS brains could be very interesting! Seriously.
Kind of surprising that there was a brief flash of Clinton in their video montage.
Everyone else was a conservative or dictator.
I usually check the writer. I thought, “Jimmy Kimmel. Now what’s he up to?”
I doubt the young gang bangers are out for revenge. Out for sport is closer to the truth.
I have no idea if the study they did in this case is right, wrong or even was reported on correctly by the author. I just know that I can not trust the author so I can not trust anything in the article.
The Heavy Metal Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mHST4Q4kTU&list=RD9mHST4Q4kTU&start_radio=1
That is OUTSTANDING! 2 minutes was just about right. Very well done.
Communist are good at order.
I order you to be quite.
I order you to kill him
I order you to take his farm, his food, and his children.
Communist are good and ordering misery.
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