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To: RandFan

Justice and revenge are not the same thing.


14 posted on 03/03/2024 3:03:06 PM PST by Revel
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To: Revel

One of the most important topics to me. I hold myself back from revenge and do what the New Age weird woman Esther Hicks (Ask and It Is Given and The Law of Attraction) would call a “pivot.” I do something nice for the person.

Here is an excellent book about the distinction.

Payback: The Case for Revenge
By Thane Rosenbaum

Good summary in this review:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo8811560.html


33 posted on 03/03/2024 4:31:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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