Germans announce: Revenge is inefficient

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In development which should strike fear into the hearts of action-movie scriptwriters and BOFHs everywhere, remorselessly efficient German economists have calculated that revenge is inefficient.

According to the German national socio-economic database, vengeful people are more likely to be unemployed, have fewer friends and are less satisfied with their lives than those who occasionally let a bad turn go unpunished.

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You — Wed, 1 Apr 2009 - 09:59

That's like saying "Islam is the solution!" to every problem that you hear without adding any explanation.

Question is if the Germans had actually won WW2, would they still think that revenge was inefficient?