Retribution For Mocking
Things of this nature vary from situation to situation and person to person so should not be generalized. Eye for an eye is not a way to get even with others but a way to render justice. Even in those situations forgiveness has been deemed better. In whatever way we choose to react, we should always do it with the sense of accountability. Since precise justice is not humanly possible, my personal advice would be to error on the side of caution whenever possible. I would much rather find accumulated extra credit on the day of judgement than the opposite scenario.
Let’s paint a scenario so we don’t generalise then. Person x says to person y ‘you’re so fat and ugly’ A few days later person y saw person x get a bad test score and said ‘wow you’re so stupid’ Now person y would never have said this if not for the distasteful behaviour of person x beforehand. Can he be regarded as doing a bad deed or would there be lenience in his case?