So I've been thinking about the concept of revenge lately.

Recently, discussing a man who tortured and repeatedly raped a retarded girl over a period of several years, Catgirl expressed the sentiment that torturing the man in turn would be a good thing. Termite identified this as vengeance.

What baffled me was her characterization of the man in question as a disgusting piece of filth, while simultaneously approving of actions akin to his in a different context.

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