Jessica Santhanam
Berkeley ATDP
25 January 2018
Is Revenge Ever Justified? “Forgiveness is the best revenge”-Frederick Lenz A quote thrown around in our society today, though no one ever stops to consider its meaning. In July 2011 Anders Behring confessed to massacring 76 people, most of them, children. Will anyone tell you to forgive him? Probably not. Most people would hope that the families of his victims would get the justice that they deserved. I think that justice and revenge are not as different as most believe. Then why is it that revenge always has a negative connotation when justice does not? I believe that revenge is justified because it is the only way to bring justice to those who are in need of it. Good or bad the idea of revenge is definitely a big part of lives and the history of human beings. From ancient myths to the last movie to gross the box office, many things that are a part of our culture revolve around revenge. The two most important markers in American History are the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, and their causes are vengeance. Vengeance against the British government for the way they treated the colonists and vengeance against the Southerners for the way they treated African Americans. These two instances have anything but a negative connotation. Why? It’s because we won. We avenged the …show more content…
The 5 year-old’s father, John Foreman, now faces running into his son’s murderer in their small town. Mr. Foreman stated, “If this man is released anywhere in my vicinity, or if I can find him after the fact, I do intend to kill this man.” It may seem like he wants revenge, but all he also wants justice for his son murder. It's so clear that he wants is both. They are in fact the same thing. Society has just been duped into things that they are
Berkeley ATDP
25 January 2018
Is Revenge Ever Justified? “Forgiveness is the best revenge”-Frederick Lenz A quote thrown around in our society today, though no one ever stops to consider its meaning. In July 2011 Anders Behring confessed to massacring 76 people, most of them, children. Will anyone tell you to forgive him? Probably not. Most people would hope that the families of his victims would get the justice that they deserved. I think that justice and revenge are not as different as most believe. Then why is it that revenge always has a negative connotation when justice does not? I believe that revenge is justified because it is the only way to bring justice to those who are in need of it. Good or bad the idea of revenge is definitely a big part of lives and the history of human beings. From ancient myths to the last movie to gross the box office, many things that are a part of our culture revolve around revenge. The two most important markers in American History are the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, and their causes are vengeance. Vengeance against the British government for the way they treated the colonists and vengeance against the Southerners for the way they treated African Americans. These two instances have anything but a negative connotation. Why? It’s because we won. We avenged the …show more content…
The 5 year-old’s father, John Foreman, now faces running into his son’s murderer in their small town. Mr. Foreman stated, “If this man is released anywhere in my vicinity, or if I can find him after the fact, I do intend to kill this man.” It may seem like he wants revenge, but all he also wants justice for his son murder. It's so clear that he wants is both. They are in fact the same thing. Society has just been duped into things that they are