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[โ€“] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I used to have the opinion that people who cheat deserve everything but violence, no revenge being too petty.

I still believe that, but I also realized that the people lame enough to cheat are not worth even being around and that they'll do a good enough job fucking up their lives without any help. There are exceptions to this rule though, snakes who cheat and lie and steal for sport, whom no form of retaliation would suffice and any amount of pettiness is beyond acceptable-- I can think of one such person who has went out of their way to wrong me like that, out of the two times I've been cheated one by different people, and had I the opportunity to destroy their life and have some part in them being locked up, I would do so without missing a beat and smile proudly every time I thought about because I would have truly done the world a favor through careful application of systemic functions rather than violence. If you disagree with this, let me ask you: would you prefer the violence? At the end of the day, all I care about is that they'd be unable to fuck with people's lives.

[โ€“] olutukko@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

I do get the feeling that you want some sort of justification but with petty revenge you achieve nothing and pretty much prove that you are not better than them.

of course there are some really twisted cases where even petty revenge is not as bad as the stuff that happened to yoi