I get it, I really do. After little Arthur was killed and I saw footage of him crying and saying nobody loved him I was beside myself for weeks. I kept imagining scenarios where terrible things would happen to the monsters that killed him. I kept googling that woman’s name in the hope that I would read that something terrible had happened to her in prison. I was obsessed.
Then I realised that one of the things I hated those murderers for was for making me feel the way I felt. For making me fantasise about another human suffering and dying, it felt like an ugly part of me that I wanted nothing to do with.
Thats why the emotion needs to be removed. Revenge is emotion-fuelled.