u/BashThemBack

Otherwise it's just telling people to allow themselves to be assaulted! It's always, always better to catch a charge than allow someone to punch you or put you in the hospital or worse. Why are so many of my colleagues so risk averse? It makes me mad that so many people who claim to be lawyers act like you can never defend yourself and just have to "be the bigger person" if you get hate crimed. Totally untrue. If a pack of violent youths or a gigantic MAGA biker comes out you shouting for slurs and red faced and screaming at you, that's reasonable to assume they are imminently going to use force against you.