(April 23, 2016 at 1:46 am)robvalue Wrote: Exactly. I'm not pretending I wouldn't be angry, or have fantasies about revenge. I just wouldn't want them acted upon.
If acted on every fantasy I had... I would be the one in prison after about 5 minutes
BINGO,
That is why I hate cliche words like "honor" and "courage" and "patriotism" especially when combined with blind faith. That leads people to group think, be it about religion or nationalism or a combo of religious nationalism, or political worship of the one party state. Then we respond with that mindset, leaning toward's revenge rather than diplomacy.
I totally agree, we all have the right to our emotions, but we don't have the right to always act on them.
All 7 billion humans can think of things they'd rather not see or hear, and if we all got to murder people we didn't like all of us could become genocidal, fortunately there are enough humans who understand how pointless that is. Unfortunately there are humans all over the world stuck in the mentality "if I just beat the shit out of them, I can solve the world's problems".