The Harm Hypothesis proposes three reasons that someone may harm you, and revenge is not one of them. But isn't revenge a basic motivation for someone to harm another?
My suggestion is that revenge is not a primal motive for harm, and instead is a motive underlined by fear. The counter argument to this is the proposal that people seek revenge with fearing those who are the target of the revenge. However is it not true that if whatever triggered the need for revenge is something warranting fear? Without having suffered harm in some way wouldn't we have no cause to seek revenge? And suffering harm is something that we should fear.
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