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Loyalty's expiration date, announced publicly and usually at the worst time for everyone else.
means The act of abandoning one group, cause, or country for another, often a rival one — a formal, public breaking of allegiance.
from From Latin defectio, 'a failing' or 'revolt,' built from deficere, 'to desert, fail, or undo' — a blend of de- ('away, undoing') and facere ('to do/make'). The same root gives us 'deficient.' A defector, etymologically, isn't just leaving — they're un-making a bond that was supposed to hold.
- game theory
- the rational move when trust costs more than betrayal
- cold war classic
- spies defected, documentaries followed, nobody felt safer
- prisoner's dilemma
- both defect, both lose, that is the whole point
- political sport
- one defection and suddenly the majority flips overnight