As someone with personal experience with this, I can say that "revenge" is the wrong reason for punishment. Punishment handed out by society should be about dis

As someone with personal experience with this, I can say that "revenge" is the wrong reason for punishment. Punishment handed out by society should be about dissuading other members of that society from behaving against the society's best interests. Anything else is personal. As soon as "revenge" comes into it, the self-perpetuating downward spiral of justifying bad behavior as punishment for bad behavior begins. Individuals in society who gain pleasure from the punishment of others, whether that punishment was deserved or not, should realize they're really just being sadistic.