On 08/09/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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.