If you've ever been on the receiving end of violence you'll know its never justified.
Except to stop a greater act of violence.
But once you know you have the capacity for it, its an option on a drop down menu.
As a guy you went through school where violence was an omnipresent fact of life. But your fists were puny and weak and theirs were too. And then you grow up into a world where random acts of violence happen. People are drunk, people are angry, they just want to lash out and they frequently lash out at people who can't hit back.
Because that makes them feel like what?
Like men?
Like someone in control in a world where there is no control?
Where things are spiralling, and you feel like the butt of everyone's joke?
Because there's not enough therapists in the world buddy.
There's always a good excuse.
But all those good excuses are a trap.
Morally and intellectually.