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MEDARDO Magallanes Lazarte Jr.
Revenge and the people who seek it
13 minutes Posted Mar 9, 2021 at 9:00 pm.
, instructs us to "give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" to punish an offender. But more than 2,000 years later, Martin Luther King Jr., responded, "The old law of 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind."
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Historically, there are two schools of thought on revenge. The Bible, in Exodus
Who's right? As psychologists explore the mental machinery behind revenge, it turns out both can be, depending on who and where you are. If you're a power-seeker, revenge can serve to remind others you're not to be trifled with. If you live in a society where the rule of law is weak, revenge provides a way to keep order.
By Michael Price
Monitor Staff
June 2009, Vol 40, No. 6
Print version: page 34
src:https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/06/revenge
narrated by: Medardo Jr. Magallanes Lazarte