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As each altercation is unique, each reaction has varying degrees of correctness. If you are the victim of some sort of confrontation, it is not you who knows how commited your attacker is. Only he knows exactly how much abuse he intends to throw your way. If you can interupt his tirade with a well-timed slap or a slam into a wall, I feel that you may have saved yourself from a person who was abusing you while amping himself up for a full-fledged brawl. In this instance, a little violence goes a long way.
In general, if you are the victim, it is your duty to respond however you see fit. You are not given fight or flight instinct for nothing. If you happen to *over do it,* Oh well...just ask your slightly-damaged attacker to forgive you, because it's obvious your ESP is on the fritz again...Too bad.
As a side note, I consider myself a pacifist. But my definition of a pacifist differs from most. It is my philosophy that a pacifist is someone who can fight, with a good chance of winning, but choses not to. A coward cannot choose to fight. He can only run...therefore he can't choose pacifism, his choice is already preordained.
Just a thought...
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The sad thing is... as you get older you come to realize that you don't so much pilot your life, as you just try to hold on, in a screaming, defiant ball of white-knuckle anxious fury 
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