The Consequences Of Revenge In Meir Kahane's Nothing For Pain

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Nothing For Pain Meir Kahane, an American-Israeli politician, said “No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place” (Kahane). Is it really? Will you heal yourself by hurting another one? When there was no more pain to make them feel will you feel satisfied, are you going to smile like a Cheshire cat? Feel yourself, feel and understand what you want to do and what is revenge. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, revenge is “harm done to someone as a punishment for harm that they have done to someone else” (“Revenge” --Cambridge Dictionary). Mahatma Gandhi, who is the leader of Indian Independence Movement said “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind” (Ghandi). If there would be punishment for punishment, …show more content…

What will happen when these irrevocable mistakes series turn in to be a revenge cycle? The only possible result is just more sadness, more hatred, and more rancor. What is this revenge cycle? In my interview with Mr. Leiter, English teacher at Robert College, he explained the cycle that revenge is in until one of the sides’ decides to stop hurting each other. After my question “Do you think revenge causes hatred or rancor?” he explained his thoughts and pointed the revenge cycle with the following words “I don’t think revenge causes hatred. I think hatred causes revenge, but I guess it is like a cycle. At some point somebody is going to have to say no I will not commit an active revenge or that cycle will just continue” (Leiter -- personal interview). When the successive revenge incidents starts to make a chain and becomes a revenge cycle, the person’s conscience becomes a part of this revenge cycle as well. As long as the person starts to see and comprehend the horrible results of the active revenge, the conscience starts to act and immediate stop becomes to be the only choice. While talking about how revenge has terrible consequences and causes only destruction, sometimes the humankind is unable to see the giant truth in front of us because of the barrier that the devil puts in front of our eyes. In my second interview, which was done with the member of the writing center at Robert College, Ms. Oguz, she pointed out the negative feelings that revenge left the person with at the end. Also the main conversation was based on how everybody has to avoid the disease named “revenge” and at the point about justification of the word revenge, as an answer to my question “Is revenge ever justified for you?” she said “No, it is not. I feel it but whether I should take action on it or not I think that to me is very important I want to believe that I have not take action on that feeling but I also confess that I have felt it for

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