Is that what happened in this case? Would it not be prudent to keep the discussion to the issue instead of contriving an apple to compare to an orange?
He makes more sense you than you and his analogy at #149 is very likely close what occurred, based on what is being reported.
“Is that what happened in this case? Would it not be prudent to keep the discussion to the issue instead of contriving an apple to compare to an orange?”
Nice try. YOU said:
“If I initiate a confrontation with another person, who begins to beat me, do I not bear responsibility at any level for what happens?”
I was responding to YOUR hypothetical event, and using YOUR hypothetical event to ask what you meant by “initiating a confrontation” and giving an example of how your term could be applied in a way that obviously did not warrant a violent response.