Quote Originally Posted by honeybee
I actually tend to agree that revenge inherently is not bad. It's just a natural reaction, in my opinion. If you throw a stone at a dog, the dog will run away. If you try it with an elephant, it probably will charge at you. It's just the natural reaction. The dog knows it can't do you any harm, so it escapes your punishment, while the elephant doesn't have to fear you, so in retaliation it charges at you. .
There are plenty of 'natural reactions' that are criminal offences. The first inherent flaw in human nature is greed, manifested in law by the offence of theft (in fact philosophically theft is at the heart of all crimes)

But then I don't take what I want? I save up (or borrow) to buy it. What do you do? Do you give-in to the natural philosophy of "I'll take it if I need it" ? Or "I'll take it if I want it" ?