Nothing personal against you or your statement but if some jerk who just called me a whatever got up off the floor and said what you just said, I'd knock him flat on his butt again since he obviously never learned the first lesson...........
The old saying "An armed society is a polite society" has gone by the wayside and allowed big mouth sissies to say whatever they want whenever they want knowing all they have to do is hide behind the cop they call after they get their butt whipped.
Today's cops and lawyers have become the mother the sissies outgrew...........
The problem is that the converse protects the big mouthed bullies. In your society where folks duke it out, the tough and the mean run ripshod over everyone else.
As for the big talk about knocking the guy on his but for calling him a name, I'm calling BS. I've been around for a long time, and I'll tell you right off that it's a lot easier to knock a guy built like Martin Short off the barstool than it is to find the stones to challenge a guy who's built like the Rock.