Pain Management: Exploring Retaliation, Revenge, and Redirection

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Now, what happens next when one experiences pain. People need to pass the pain along, or what we call payback (Barash 3). It’s infectious. People need to cope with the suffering (Barash 4). It diminishes peoples stress. How do people do this? The couple argues that people either do nothing or do one of the three r’s (Barash 4). The three r’s are responsible for much of the world’s violence (Barash 4). Doing nothing is the better option, but rarer. Most people don’t just take pain and act like it never happened. So to cope with the pain people get payback, which is he three r’s. The three r’s are retaliation, revenge, and redirect aggression (Barash 4). Retaliation is pain is immediately reflected back on to the perpetrator (Barash 4). They give the example of a jelly …show more content…

How it does not want you to touch it, but when a person does the jellyfish will sting you back right away. Revenge is close to the same as retaliation, but there is a time difference (Barash 4). The response is delayed here. It’s it builds up over time. The couple also argues that it’s not always even either. So it’s not an eye for an eye, but perhaps a tooth for an eye. The authors give an example of a girl finding out that her boyfriend cheated on her. So she goes and buys some spray pain and graffiti’s his car with a slur. It wasn’t right away. Lastly, redirect aggression is the targeting of a bystander in response to one’s own pain by taking it out on an innocent bystander (Barash 5). They give the example of when a mother comes home from a horrible day at work and take it out on her son, who had nothing to do with her bad day at work. They are all a form of

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