Right, that’s true. One, they do things tit-for-tat because they’re childish. I was actually just commenting somewhere else about the behavior/tactic you describe. I think it’s also supposed to make their target audience think “well you’re just accusing us of that because we accused you of it” or “that’s projection”, because these people do think like that and act like it in their own lives.

It also makes no moral sense because if say, my neighbor robbed a store, would that make it okay for me to rob a store? Of course not.