Vengeance has been one of the most important initiations of criminal activities since thousands of years ago. It can be dated with many well-known ancient Chinese literatures. It has never stopped, and is growing in a more harmful way. In 1985, a total of thirty five people from two gang groups were shot during a gun fight on a street in Hong Kong, eleven o'clock at night, because the sister of the head of one of the gangs was raped by a member of the other gang. During the gun fight, three innocent people were shot dead, including a policeman, six injured, and a total damage worth over five million Hong Kong dollars were cost to eight stores on the side of the street, including an art shop with valuable paintings. The gun fight was one of the largest and organized gang activities in Hong Kong since over eighty years, and it wasn't even the end of the gang's vengeance. This event was followed by another two street fight by these two gangs a few days later, caused even more damage. All of these were caused because of vengeance, and the effect of vengeance can been proven by this and hundreds of other similar criminal activities. Vengeance can create endless cycles that will cause more harm to the society than something with a one-time effect like drugs. Thus it should not be officially recognized for judgment in criminal law.
It is true that the law has to be fair to everyone, however one's feelings should not be taken into consideration. Since everyone is mentally different and has different feelings, it will not be fair to others if only one side's feelings are recognized. If the system tries to take both sides' personal feelings into consideration when judging, it is almost impossible to determine the truthfulness between two sides' feelings, and which one is guil ...