Vengeance mimics gift exchange

Vengeance mimics gift exchange. 

1. Each party delivers a self-initiated injury or gift to the other; 
2. a period of digestion ensues during which time the receiving party appreciates or resents the other party for their action; 
3. the other party reciprocates; 
4. a relationship is built where the parties stand out as particular to each other; 
5. a culture evolves either of anger or of generosity; and 
6. the chain of action and reaction continues indefinitely. 

• The pagans saw the world in terms of unending vengeance; 
• The worshippers of a providential God in the mainstream religions see the world in terms of unending beneficence.