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100 3740 300x225 Vengeance and the EgoQuick summary: Vengeance
is then a tool which creates instability in an attempt to create
a stable ego.  Vengeance is a tool used to justify the dichotomy
of ‘good or bad’ (in contrast to the dialectic of being both
‘good and bad’).  The ego attaches to dichotomies… ‘either or’
labels serve as judgments used to define permanence…  With
vengeance we perpetuate the notion that good and bad exist
separately and without relativity. By creating this idea of good
and bad we create a construct that we can use to identify the
self.  Vengeance is an action governed by the belief “I am good…
and they are bad.”  Vengeance is a tool for proving the
existence of a constructed identity… by attacking what I choose
to label as bad, I prove the existence of my morals…  My morals
are a construct I use to prove my existence and to prove the
positive nature of that existence.  The irony is that acts of
vengeance are usually in c