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@Velocio
Nope, I didn't misquote at all.
If you read my post rather than just troll out a response you'd see that what I said was that whether or not it was 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10,000... violence is still violence... so please quite trying to stay "You've got a detail wrong, therefore your argument is invalid"... when my argument is simply: Violence was used.
And on the duplicity thing, you'd see I didn't say that it was important or not... I even suggested there's a time and place for such behaviour... but that in no way does the use or not of guile to entrap someone bear any impact on the fact that: Violence was used.
For all your tub-thumping and people thumping, the one thing that has failed to get through is the simple: You used violence, you've godwin'd youself out of the debate, and apparently you're not man enough to accept that you're a thug and do the decent thing and apologise to Loic and make good the situation, including facing up to any consequences from a police action.
You go on to somehow justify your actions on the basis of "but mummy, he said!"... which is why most people think you're acting like a 5 year old. AFAIK, your wife wasn't present... you were not physically defending her from an imminent danger. Instead you're seeking to use words as a justification for your violence.
The really interesting thing about that is that women are far from stupid (and I'm sure this includes your wife), and no woman I can think of would really want their man to act violently... even in their interest. You know those old films in which a man throws a punch in front of his woman, and the woman then tells him to get fucked and goes with the victim... well there is a reason. No woman wants to be with someone who at the smallest provocation is going to resort to violence, because whilst they're on the benefiting side today, who is to say that in the future that will still be the case. No-one wants to be with a thug.
Seriously, man up... straighten things out with Loic, subject yourself to an enormous amount of humble pie, face whatever consequences comes of the police action... but fundamentally, quit trying to justify the use of violence when you simply cannot do so.