Is revenge worth the cost?

BlakexEkalb said:
Revenge is almost all the time never worth it since someone is going to get hurt/affected by it.

Flevalt said:


Yes.
It's always a once in a lifetime experience when you can dish it out.
It's a priceless reward in itself.
That otherwise just haunts you forever like a ghost or an uncurable chronic illness if you suppress the desire by listening to pacifist loonies.




Let's say it like this:
Revenge is an extremely common theme in stories, so it's not a rarity as an experience.
However, revenge and the associated experience are usually reduced to a matter of simply letting go, where revenge stories tend to play out in such a way that at the end of the story the vengeful character will realize how bad the idea of revenge is. The story will try its worst to paint revenge as a one-way ticket to doom, where the avenger always digs 2 graves, one for the target of their emotions and one for themselves.

The theme is so strictly and boringly copy-pastedly choked out in every story that it appears in. And is so frictionlessly norm-conform that it's not much different from fan service that takes peoples figurative dicks and jerks them off.
The same bs mentality that psycho-pass lives off of, just busting a nut over nonsensical yet popular outlooks on life for a media-to-human circlejerking experience.

When people want or need something, they admire those who just take it.
Yet when it comes to situations that involve sin-like principles like jealousy or revenge, that same determination loses its appeal for no good reason.

The idea to distance yourself from your emotions, like letting bygones be bygones is nothing but poison that drains the life spirit out of you, so that there is more room for others to get what THEY want because every step you take back, they can step another one forward.
You can fruitlessly keep telling yourself that an interaction involving you and someone else is not a personal matter to distance yourself from it emotionally, but you know and you can feel that that's a lie because everything that happens in your life is personal.

If someone came to you, did something onto you and afterwards tells you "it's nothing personal", obviously from their standpoint they are saying that because they got reasons for their actions other than you.
But would it really not be a personal matter to you, between you and that person?
The person who speaks such doesn't understand their own feelings. That there could be nothing more personal going on in that moment than sharing that experience between the two of you because it's literally a single moment that only you two experience in that way at that time, a unique and singular event.

The same goes for most such situations.
Most often when people do onto others, it's without any grudge against the person(s).
It's darwinistically speaking just a part of life.
But it's still a matter involving your person.
The moment you forget that and are like "lifetime is way too precious to be wasting on such negative emotions", all you're doing is to run away from your feelings and from who you are.
It's defeatism and escapism in a much purer form than e.g. consuming entertainment media because you are trying HARD to lie to yourself about what you want VS what you can and should do.

BrightFlashLight said:
@Fate_Saber88

What!? You are expecting a right answer? Hey you. Life is yours to picture. What is our posts even for! This discussion is mainly for pure mayhem~