HOW HAS THE THEME OF REVENGE BEEN COMMENTED ON BY CRITICS?

The way people regard the right of revenge is a curious thing, and it says much about human nature. It's a right that each of us wants for himself, but also wants to deny to most other people. Those others whom we'd let share in the right of revenge, we'd make their right subject to our approval - just to make sure that only people we don't care much about are the victims of revenge.

Some say that "the law" nullifies the right of revenge, but it does no such thing. It merely institutionalizes it and restricts its exercise to the highest bidders and to those who can most influence the state's officials. When the right of revenge is left uninstitutionalized, people are more equal in how much of that right they have. When the liberty to act in revenge is replaced by license, most people are cut off from being able to redress their own grievances and must petition a state authority, which cares little for them, has an agenda of its own, and can't be bothered to spend its extortion (tax) revenues to redress every wrong done to Little People.

That's why the legal system costs so much, above and beyond the taxes you must pay. The law has taken away your right of revenge and your money and has given you nothing in exchange. People are not so much safer as less free. You can choke on the kind of "safety" that government can give you (such as it is). After a while, you just sort of wish you could be on another planet, even if you had to fight work hard and fight aliens to survive.

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