@QMan,
I wouldn't insult the mother of even my arch enemy who might be scheming to kill me.
And if you stabbed me I wouldn't call the cops, as a moral imperative. You probably don't agree with that anymore than I agree with what you wrote above.
But may be we have different codes of honor.
Yes, most likely.
It is obvious that on the issue we have different opinions: you think your insult was justified, while I think it was not.
Hold on a sec, charles. I do think my insult was justified from my own personal code, but I wasn't trying to argue it was objectively justified. I was only stating that it was
provoked. You said it was an unprovoked insult, and that's obviously untrue. Even if it was unjustified, it definitely wasn't unprovoked. And what I am trying to tell you is I do respond strongly to provocation, unless I view it as being strategically/tactically unwise-- and this being an internet discussion forum, there are no tactical or strategic concerns when it comes to these kinds of exchanges.
I'm just sayin that if you're polite and don't insult me, it's very unlikely I'd insult you, much less make the kind of insult I did to SNB. For any truly unprovoked insults I have made, I apologize. But I don't apologize to SNB, even if what I said was objectively unjustified, unless he shows some recognition of his own unwarranted personal attacks against me.