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RE: True Justice Is Always Personal
I think we can find plenty of example where revenge creates its own wicked kind of society, but I think there is place for revenge in society. In any case, it is preferable for the person dispensing justice to feel its impact, rather than leaving it to a system, where responsibility is diffused and spread around.
What I don't like about revenge is its collectivist side, where "we" are wronged, so "we" take revenge. If someone kills my family member or a friend, I don't think there is anything in this world that should stop me from taking revenge, but revenge gets messy in real life because people are messy.
In theory, I have no problem with it. In practice, it would depend on what kind of a society we live in.
Yeah that's the problem, and maybe the only problem, that it's all good in theory, but in practice it would just be chaos, there's no way we could allow those things to happen, it would just be a total mess. The law tries to accommodate those kinds of cases with 'heat of passion' defenses, it's the best it can do.