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Newton's third law with a grudge and a memory.
means Inflicting harm on someone in response to harm they inflicted on you, often disproportionately.
from From Latin retaliare, built on talio — the law of like-for-like, the same root behind the biblical eye for an eye.
Legal sensePunishing a whistleblower is illegal workplace retaliation.
Talion logicOriginally meant equal payback, not escalating it.
Game theoryTit-for-tat beats pure forgiveness in repeated games.