Is the difference between Revenge and Vengence just righteousness and is that ever enough?

Answer 1

Umm... revenge and vengeance are the same thing.

If you mean Revenge and Justice, the difference is revenge is pay back while Justice seeks a compromise that ultimately ends the struggle.

Judges in a courtroom seek justice, but the prosecutors seek revenge. The judge is trying to find a solution that ends the argument without the defendant or prosecutor or others making another trial, be it inside or outside the courtroom. (Just because the law says so does not mean it is.)

A true law or decision that really ends all struggle is true justice. A law that must be enforced by others is a law of vengeance.

Answer 2

I don't think there is a difference between Revenge and Vengence. There is a difference between those two and Justice. Revenge is never enough for the agrieved and only starts a never-ending cycle.

Answer 3

Notice the similarity in the words VENGEance and reVENGE. The "re" at the beginning of revenge intimates that this is something happening again. Revenge, then has the idea of carrying on a cycle. You did this to me, let me do it back to you. Vengeance, on the other hand, reflects the idea that something has been done that requires punishment to be meted out. Revenge requires the action to have affected the one seeking revenge. Vengeance does not.

Without vengeance, evil would never find a foe. Vengeance stands before evil as a warning of just and adequate punishment for wrongdoing. Revenge differs significantly from true vengeance because revenge grows out of the personal reaction to a perceived wrongdoing, whereas, true vengeance comes from the belief that right is right, wrong is wrong, and wrong should not prevail. In that case, the only true vengeance belongs to God, for God alone has pure motives in responding to wrongdoing. Yet, God has given to the government and to church leaders a measure of responsibility in bringing just vengeance.

Answer 4

Always in the movies they use that old cliche: Vengeance if mine said the Lord. I didn't know it came with a pink slip like a car. Vengeance can take many forms. Revenge is just about the same, merely a matter of semantics. The point is that when someone attacks you or a loved one for no reason. We are supposed to forgive them according to the current line of bull. If we were to forgive every wrongdoer the jails would be empty..
Nothing can undo something that has already happened. But we can make sure it does not happen again. Punishment to fit the crime is the best way.
There are ways to punish be going through the system. I had a co-worker who had the effrontery to attempt to beat me up while i was sitting in a chair.
He was not the brightest person in the world, but I knew that if I got up an tangled with him I could have put him in the hospital very easily, but I would get fired immediately. So i went through the system, I kept on him for two years using every legal method to make sure he would never even think about doing anything like that to anyone ever again.
He should have been fired, but he was wired in as a pet suck up so they merely warned him not to do anything Like that again, or they would take further remedial action. In other words, B.S.
That was my vengeance, In flicking everlasting Hell on a weak kneed incompetent.
Vengeance is mine sayeth me.

Answer 5

I suppose revenge could be illogical where it could possibly be argued that vengence and just righteosness is more the logical approach as in thought about and delivered in a cloth cut to fit kind of a way. Is it ever enough........depends what the crime is .
To fogive.....is best but not always easy or even possible. We cannot ever really say until we have lived a thing and had to apply it to reality within our own life.

Answer 6

I think thay are the same, vengence of any kind is simply another form of hatred. Hatred stemming from the avengers past and insecurities. Nothing that cause as perpetual cycle of anger can be a good thing, when the avenger get his vengence, then the avenged become the avenger, when will it stop.

Answer 7

NO they both the same and always have the same sorry ending no end if you continue to seek vengeance and revenge you will go on and on finding and nit picking because there is no closure its like an eye for an eye how strong should the punishment be its never enough how do you find closure forgiveness I don't know . but there must be an end judges are only human to and whether they agree ar not the have protocols that they have to stick to whether we agree or they agree that's the law otherwise we would have anarchy terrorist vigilantes ... sorry didn't like what you said your dead .... we don't want to go down that route right or wrong its up to you ....move on hard though it is it will be easier to bear as time goes on otherwise we perish mentally physically and emotionally

Answer 8

yea, totally, it depends on what you value and your self-respect as a human being..

If a guy rapes and mutilates your mom, wife, kids and finally rapes your dog while laughing as your house comes down on fire.....

if you don't ******* kill and torture that son of a *****, then your a ******* creepy and fucked up fuckity **** **** ****, uncle fucker times 5.

So you better ******* torture him or your just a fuckin ***** man.

On a less extreme note....if someone makes a slight about u, or tries to humiliate you---a response...say, you respond in a witty manner or in kind to make it "cost" somethign to him....is really the same thing as revenge...you are simply leveling the playing field to protect your pride, your self-esteem, and your self-respect...

what happens...is that some people are too much of a ***** to react immidietly, or they completely over-react and make an *** out of themselves...so they then plan to make an elaborate scheme to get back at some idiot because they perceive themselves to be of higher self-worth..

IF YOU THINK YOUR OF HIGHER SELF-WORTH, THEN DEFEND YOURSELF, STOP BEING A *****, AND STOP CONTEMPLATING, OVER REACTING, WHETHER YOUR ACTIONS ARE RIGHTEOUS...

just ******* do it with no over-reaction, and stop being a politically correct ******