{"id":7312,"date":"2013-09-10T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?page_id=7312"},"modified":"2013-09-10T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T15:09:32","slug":"podcast-righteous-vengeance-and-furious-anger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-righteous-vengeance-and-furious-anger","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Righteous Vengeance and Furious Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories \u2013 season 3 episode 19 –
\nGreat Vengeance and Furious Anger<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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“It’s not natural to forgive without some sense of evening the score. It’s intolerable to know that someone gets away with something, and there’s no sense of avenging the act.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thane Rosenbaum<\/a> talks revenge in the second episode of our two-part 9\/11 special! An author and law professor, Thane recently published\u00a0Payback: The Case for Revenge<\/a>\"\"(University of Chicago Press), an exploration of how the American judicial system has excluded vengeance from justice, to the detriment of the polity and the moral universe.<\/p>\n

“I’m not advocating that people go seek revenge as self-help; I am<\/strong> advocating that the legal system has to do a better job to do it on our behalf.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We discuss why the American legal system has a problem with emotion, how victims have been trivialized, what to do about suicide bombers, how western man split justice and revenge (and why it was a huge mistake), how Aeschylus’ Oresteia<\/em> creates a perfect model for the justice system, how to make better lawyers (and better people), how The Godfather\u00a0<\/em>demonstrates the rule of proportionality, and a whole lot more.<\/p>\n

“Let’s stop pretending that we don’t believe in vengeance. Because if you believe in justice, you believe in vengeance. It’s a false distinction between them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bonus: <\/em>You get to hear about the time I had to decide whether to have someone killed!<\/p>\n

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Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes!<\/p>\n

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