Better is it to treat them always better but that can be so very difficult from time to time.
Nah, mostly not. I do not like to be treated like a turd, but I hate it more to be a revenge turd.
"Treat people according to how you are, not how they are" (paraphrased because I can't remember exactly how it went). What Sean said. Treating shitty people shittily won't teach them a lesson or make either one of you a better person, it'll just add more toxicity to the cesspool we call humanity, and probably reinforce their worldview of interpersonal shittiness.
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