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Not so fast Ikari, if someone is driven to fight through use of words that would incense the typical normative person it's called fighting words and is a valid defense in court.
For instance if a white guy calls a black guy the N word directly to his face in an angry tone then proceeds to get the **** kicked out of him, a battery did not occur for the purposes of conviction of the black guy because the insult would be considered fighting words. If I had children and someone endangered or disrespected them I would hurt the aggressor, so it would reason I would do that moreso if my children had passed and they did the insulting at their funeral.
I think that emotions can be hard to control. But words are merely words and can cause no physical harm. Those who act out are the ones who infringe upon the rights first. I think that we've forgotten that. In many ways I think we used to be a lot tougher and patient than we are now. I guess it's a product of the "give it now" mentality we've fallen to. Instead of being men and accepting the consequences of freedom; we seek to insulate ourselves from those consequences.
Now, I will say there's a difference between being in a 1-1 fight and assault.