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    Francis Bacon argues that revenge is a form of wild justice that destroys the rule of law. While getting even with an enemy may satisfy momentarily, refusing to seek revenge shows greater character and wisdom. It is better to move on from past injuries and focus on the present rather than waste time plotting revenge, which keeps wounds open and prevents healing. Private revenge should be avoided, while public revenge by the state can be justified in exceptional cases.

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    Francis Bacon argues that revenge is a form of wild justice that destroys the rule of law. While getting even with an enemy may satisfy momentarily, refusing to seek revenge shows greater character and wisdom. It is better to move on from past injuries and focus on the present rather than waste time plotting revenge, which keeps wounds open and prevents healing. Private revenge should be avoided, while public revenge by the state can be justified in exceptional cases.

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    Francis Bacon argues that revenge is a form of wild justice that destroys the rule of law. While getting even with an enemy may satisfy momentarily, refusing to seek revenge shows greater character and wisdom. It is better to move on from past injuries and focus on the present rather than waste time plotting revenge, which keeps wounds open and prevents healing. Private revenge should be avoided, while public revenge by the state can be justified in exceptional cases.

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    “About Revenge” by Francis Bacon

    Revenge is a sort of wild justice. The more people try to take


    revenge, the more the law should punish them. When a man
    commits a crime, he breaks the law. But when the injured person
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    takes revenge, the person destroys law itself. In taking revenge, a
    person does indeed get even with his enemy. But when one refuses
    to take revenge, he shows that he is better than his enemy. King
    Solomon, I am sure, said it is glorious for a person to forget an
    injury.

    Whatever is past is gone and can't be changed. Wise people


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    know they have enough to do in the present and with whatever
    might happen in the future. They don't spend their time taking
    revenge. People who spend their time worrying about past injuries
    just waste their time. Also, no person hurts another person just to
    15 hurt him. Rather, it is done for his profit or his own pleasure or his
    honor or for some other reason he might have. So why should I be
    angry with someone for loving himself better than he loves me?
    Suppose someone hurts me because he is evil. Isn't that just like a
    thorn or briar which scratches me because it can't do anything
    else?
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    Revenge is most allowable when there is no specific law to
    correct an injury. However, one must then be careful that the kind
    of revenge one takes does not break another law.

    25 Some people when they get even want their enemy to know
    that it will happen. This is a more generous way of acting. Not
    letting your enemy know you are going to get even is a cowardly
    thing to do. It is like killing at night from ambush

    What is certain about planning to get even is that one's own


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    wounds remain open. If one didn't spend one's time trying to take
    revenge, those injuries would heal and be forgotten. Public or state
    revenges are, for the most part, good--as in the case of the
    murderers of Julius Caesar. Private revenges are, however, not
    good. People who take revenge live the life of witches. They cause
    trouble to others and come to a bad end.

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