There are plenty of people that have suffered in their life and are still suffering from actions taken against them, that were perceived as being unjustified, unfair, or just plain wrong. One would think that whenever we suffer, that our best response would be to do our level best not to have others suffer the same way that we have, by therefore doing the right thing to others, of which, by doing so, this will bring us relief from our experiences of having suffered, while also making us feel good for having done right to other people. While, indeed, there are those types of people who have suffered, that behave in this mature and empathetic manner, we do so find, that there are plenty of other people who having suffered, feel an urge to have others to suffer in the basic same way and manner that they have suffered from.
The proximate reason why so many people who suffer, want to strike back at others, so as to make them suffer, has a lot to do with that “eye for an eye” mentality, but regrettably, while it is one thing to strike back against the very person or entity that has made a particular person suffer, often though, when it comes to striking back, the person that is made to suffer, has a strong tendency though to hurt someone that is basically innocent of any crimes against the person that has suffered. That is to say, some of those who suffer, seem to make it their point to attack those who are vulnerable or weaker than them, and therefore they make easy targets to attack, which while not taking care of the crux of the problem does seem to give the perpetrator some distinct relief from their suffering, because they feel the pride of having stood up for their own self, by hurting the other – no matter how wrong this is ethically and logically.
Indeed, those who suffer and desire revenge, prefer oftentimes to mull over in their mind, the future satisfaction that they will get when they enact that action that will hurt the other. In other words, before a particular action is taken, those who are bent on revenge, will picture in their mind, what they are going to do, and dwell upon it, which helps them thereby to enact what they do so enact, with a concentrated fury which best gives them the satisfaction of a dirty deed, done well.
It is unfortunate, that so many suffer from various injustices of all types, of which, it would behoove society, in general, to do what it could to help alleviate or re-direct such suffering into a response that would be more in keeping with forgiveness and a conscience determined to do right, even when it is tempted to do wrong. Yet, whenever there is a person or an area of society, that suffers as well as also feels hopeless, then the go-to response is going to have a lot more in common, with revenge and hurting the other, than forgiveness, and because of this, those that suffer will be prone to making others suffer, ad nauseam.