Q Revenge Is Sweet Until It Isn’t

Revenge has a way of making smart people act like it’s an emergency. One minute we’re minding our business, the next we’re running mental scripts for payback and calling it “justice.” We start with a small modern-day spark, feeling wronged, walking to the mailbox, and getting blindsided by a reminder from the past that pulls us straight into the question: why does revenge feel so sweet in the moment? The celebration ends where a lot of real revenge ends: sitting with the aftertaste, realizing...