To physically threaten you was pathetic and juvenile.
I love having discussions with people. I just don't like it when people come at you swinging for no reason. Especially when you have been civil to them.
On the other hand, he may well be able to beat me up :-)
That has long been my opinion, that people are much less civil when talking with their computer.
But I fear that years of learning how to be rude, crass, and juvenile has left a good number of our population unable to act in a civilized manner even in public.
I see more and more people willing to be rude right to people’s faces. Nobody wants to even TRY to understand the other person’s point of view. It used to be that understanding was considered a good conservative value, but now if you suggest you are trying to “understand” what the other side is doing, you are an appeaser or worse, “pragmatic” (which is now a dirty word).