On 08/09/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would say revenge is purely done
to punish someone. Justice tries to
correct the wrong, sometimes including
punishment, but normally as a deterrent
rather than for emotional reasons.
If someone steals your wallet,
getting them to give it back is
justice. Hitting them with a
baseball bat is revenge.
So, if someone is not blending in well
with the Wikipaedia community, blocking
that person and telling him or her you
do not want him or her to edit for the
forseeable future is protective of
Wikipaedia (which you call 'justice...
I prefer the term 'protective').
Destroying that person's online
reputation - and offline reputation
too, if the person's offline identity
is known - with a variety of insults
posted on top Google-ranking pages
is revenge.