Thanks for posting that. Any observer can now see something you hid in your previous post -- the fact that I was talking about responding to your insult, not initiating an insult cycle.
I didn't sling an insult at you. You erred in your thought that I did. That is in the quote.
Now back to the main point: You think it is worse to defend oneself from physical assault than to sling an insult. You lose all credibility for that.
Defending oneself from physical assault is a most basic human right and intelligent thing to do.