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==Description==

==Description==

'''Revenge''' (also known as vengeance) is a harmful [[action]] against a [[person]] or [[group]] as a [[response]] to a real or [[perceived]] grievance. Although many aspects of revenge resemble the [[concept]] of [[justice]], revenge connotes a more injurious and punitive  [[focus]] as opposed to a [[harmonious]] and restorative one. Whereas [[justice]] generally implies [[actions]] undertaken and supported by a legitimate [[judicial]] [[system]], by a system of [[ethics]], or on behalf of an ethical [[majority]], revenge generally implies actions undertaken by an [[individual]] or narrowly defined group outside the boundaries of [[judicial]] or ethical conduct. The goal of revenge usually consists of forcing the perceived wrongdoer to suffer the same or greater [[pain]] than that which was originally inflicted.

'''Revenge''' (also known as vengeance) is a harmful [[action]] against a [[person]] or [[group]] as a [[response]] to a real or [[perceived]] grievance. Although many aspects of revenge resemble the [[concept]] of [[justice]], revenge connotes a more injurious and punitive  [[focus]] as opposed to a [[harmonious]] and restorative one. Whereas [[justice]] generally implies [[actions]] undertaken and supported by a legitimate [[judicial]] [[system]], by a system of [[ethics]], or on behalf of an ethical [[majority]], revenge generally implies actions undertaken by an [[individual]] or narrowly defined group outside the boundaries of [[judicial]] or ethical conduct. The goal of revenge usually consists of forcing the perceived wrongdoer to suffer the same or greater [[pain]] than that which was originally inflicted.

==Function in society==

==Function in society==

In some [[societies]], it is believed that the [[punishment]] in revenge should be more than the [[original]] [[injury]], as a punitive [[measure]]. Detractors [[argue]] that revenge is a simple logical [[fallacy]], of the same [[design]] as "two wrongs make a right". Some assert that the [[Old Testament]] "an eye for an eye"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.21] [[validates]] the [[concept]] of [[proportionate]] revenge, in which there would be a simple '[[equality]] of [[suffering]]'; however this view confounds the concepts of "[[justice]]" and "revenge," and disregards the fact that "eye for an eye"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.21] justice was a philosophical advance on the [[normative]] [[practice]] of the day, (cf "[[Blood feud]], Vendetta", infra) and that [[Scripture]] elsewhere prescribes “Do not seek revenge . . . love your neighbor as yourself”[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Leviticus#Chapter_.19].

In some [[societies]], it is believed that the [[punishment]] in revenge should be more than the [[original]] [[injury]], as a punitive [[measure]]. Detractors [[argue]] that revenge is a simple logical [[fallacy]], of the same [[design]] as "two wrongs make a right". Some assert that the [[Old Testament]] "an eye for an eye"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.21] [[validates]] the [[concept]] of [[proportionate]] revenge, in which there would be a simple '[[equality]] of [[suffering]]'; however this view confounds the concepts of "[[justice]]" and "revenge," and disregards the fact that "eye for an eye"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.21] justice was a philosophical advance on the [[normative]] [[practice]] of the day, (cf "[[Blood feud]], Vendetta", infra) and that [[Scripture]] elsewhere prescribes “Do not seek revenge . . . love your neighbor as yourself”[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Leviticus#Chapter_.19].