Revenge or Not?

[Queen Victoria]

In the horrible situation that someone you love has been raped or viciously attacked so that they have a permanent injury would you take revenge on the person responsible?

Although it would give me a great deal of immediate personal satisfaction, I'd probably not seek revenge.  I'm not about to spend time in prison for killing a scuzzball.  I'm worth more than that. 

Even more importantly I feel I would be deserting the person I love.  Even though it would be damn hard I would choose to be there for them, consoling them, whatever.  Damn hard.

[Adam]

Can't say. I think revenge in this kind of situation would usually be based on how you reacted in the moment. Emotionally, you're gonna be angry. I dunno how I would deal with that anger. I have a feeling I wouldn't react violently unless the rapist/attacker was right there in front of me when I found out, or soon afterwards. But I don't know how much of that would be down to me making a conscious decision not to take revenge.

If you make a rational choice, obviously the right one is to focus on the person who's been raped/attacked, rather than on seeking revenge yourself. But emotions can sometimes overrule things like that when something this bad has happened, so I can't say for sure. I would hope I would have the self control though.

[Beardy McFuckface]

If I could get away with it, I would most likely kill the person in cold blood. Probably slowly torture them first.

I'm the same for burglers, muggers etc. - If I had a gun, I'd shoot to kill without thinking much about it.

[skyblue1]

Would hope that the courts would take care of it

Have to admit if it happened in my house,

they would be dead

Or I would be

['Butterflies']

In the horrible situation that someone you love has been raped or viciously attacked so that they have a permanent injury would you take revenge on the person responsible?

In that situation, then yes. I would get someone to destroy that person for me.

I doubt if I would take the risk of hiring someone to kill them, but I would get people to constantly hospitalize them.

[Queen Victoria]

If I could get away with it, I would most likely kill the person in cold blood. Probably slowly torture them first.

I'm the same for burglers, muggers etc. - If I had a gun, I'd shoot to kill without thinking much about it.

(Tangential to the discussion)  I don't remember the detail, but just this week (in Houston?) a woman ran down and killed someone who was carrying a gun. She saw him approaching a group of teenagers.  However, he was carrying a innocuous gun like a dart gun.  Rash decision, bad outcome. 

['andersom']

When caught in the act, I would be fierce, no mercy, anything to help the one I love.

But, afterwards, what is revenge going to do? I would want them to get punished, and taken away from society so that they would not harm someone else, but, no need for personal revenge. Not for the sake of the victim either. I would feel like abandoning the one I love, like QV wrote.

The revenge sensation hardly ever comes over me, and the times it did, it was soon gone.

[Jack]

If ever faced with such a situation, I would hope I wouldn't stoop to the level of the wrongdoer. It's a really hard thing to hypothesize; people never really know what reaction extreme circumstances like that can produce.

[skyblue1]

When caught in the act, I would be fierce, no mercy, anything to help the one I love.

But, afterwards, what is revenge going to do? I would want them to get punished, and taken away from society so that they would not harm someone else, but, no need for personal revenge. Not for the sake of the victim either. I would feel like abandoning the one I love, like QV wrote.

The revenge sensation hardly ever comes over me, and the times it did, it was soon gone.

nice post

[Semicolon]

In the horrible situation that someone you love has been raped or viciously attacked so that they have a permanent injury would you take revenge on the person responsible?

In that situation, then yes. I would get someone to destroy that person for me.

I doubt if I would take the risk of hiring someone to kill them, but I would get people to constantly hospitalize them.

Why not do it yourself?

['Butterflies']

In the horrible situation that someone you love has been raped or viciously attacked so that they have a permanent injury would you take revenge on the person responsible?

In that situation, then yes. I would get someone to destroy that person for me.

I doubt if I would take the risk of hiring someone to kill them, but I would get people to constantly hospitalize them.

Why not do it yourself?

Im 5 foot 2, and a girl.

If someone raped, or viciously assaulted someone, it's unlikely that they could easily be beaten up by me.

[Semicolon]

In the horrible situation that someone you love has been raped or viciously attacked so that they have a permanent injury would you take revenge on the person responsible?

In that situation, then yes. I would get someone to destroy that person for me.

I doubt if I would take the risk of hiring someone to kill them, but I would get people to constantly hospitalize them.

Why not do it yourself?

Im 5 foot 2, and a girl.

If someone raped, or viciously assaulted someone, it's unlikely that they could easily be beaten up by me.

God created man; Sam Colt made them equal.

Have confidence in your abilities, Butterflies.

[TheoK]

If I could kill or mutilate them and getting away with it: absolutely. If it were my mother or someone else very close I might do it even if I couldn't get away with it.

[Al Swearegen]

In the horrible situation that someone you love has been raped or viciously attacked so that they have a permanent injury would you take revenge on the person responsible?

Although it would give me a great deal of immediate personal satisfaction, I'd probably not seek revenge.  I'm not about to spend time in prison for killing a scuzzball.  I'm worth more than that. 

Even more importantly I feel I would be deserting the person I love.  Even though it would be damn hard I would choose to be there for them, consoling them, whatever.  Damn hard.

Yes and I would be brutal

[Lestat]

No shit.

I wouldn't have any ethical, moral or personal reasons not to crucify a rapist, or drip concentrated acid into a barrel full of dilute acid, slowly increasing the strength (and probably temperature), with them restrained within, drop, by drop, by drop, feet first, over as long a period as proves survivable with medical attention.