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pro-retaliation, meaning acts done not in response to any behavior but solely because of perception or prejudice.
What do you-all think? (JFTR, I am not enamored with this term; I was just struck by the concept. If there's a word already in place for it, somebody please let me know. Other than the words for legal charges, I mean.)
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1580s, from L.L. retaliare "pay back in kind," from re- "back" + L. talio "exaction of payment in kind," from talis "suchlike." Originally used both in good and evil senses.
Pro- meaning intended? But how can you intend to retaliate something that was not really done ot given? Can you speak of retaliation at all?
How does pro- go with re-?
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Is it a term you have seen Jackie?
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pro-retaliation, meaning acts done not in response to any behavior but solely because of perception or prejudice. I might have gone for 'pretaliation'.
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> pro-retaliation
I would read that as being in favor of retaliation.
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I'm with tsuwm. Pretaliation. I feel the same way about proactive. It should be preactive but proactive is too well established.
To Bran, it would be done to avenge a slight not yet committed but expected.
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I might have gone for 'pretaliation'.
My thought too. Much like pre-poning an event or a pre-emptive strike.
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It should be preactive but proactive is too well established. Yeah, that's why I used pro-.
Pretaliation is better.
What I was thinking of is along the lines of you seeing a person whom for some reason you don't like, and you go do something bad to them even though he was just minding his own business and you had never seen him before. As in, "All you X's are such-and-such, therefore you deserve what I'm about to give you".
There are several words for criminal charges for doing this, but none that I knew of for this specifically-motivated act.
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Like a vigilante attack, one that is extralegel!
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