171. Revenge is not justice

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Epictetus reminds his students that engaging in a wrong act, even one done in response to an injustice, stains our own character, and therefore hurts us first and foremost. Stoics don't favor retributive justice systems.

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