“When people take revenge, the same reward centers of the brain are activated that are associated with satisfying hunger, thirst, sexual appetite.”
Ian McEwan from a profile in The New Yorker
[I often wonder if the people I think about when I think about revenge realize that I’m still thinking about them.]
Finally, an everyday use for evolution!
I prefer actually completing some measured, appropriate act of retribution and then not thinkIng about them ever again.