You have a point, but it's not purely an abstract grievance I have. Spreading lies for character assassination works all too often. Not so much here at Cheers, where everybody knows your name, but it probably would have been effective on Reddit.

I don't want to try to make him a better human being, I agree with you I can't change the old swine's spots, but I feel owned retribution. He is well aware of the terms I mentioned and why it's happening. This is just him trying to weasel out of the consequences of his actions. Another tactic, he's playing dumb and innocent.

You don't even have to win a fight all the time, you just have to make it not worth it for the other guy to hit you in the first place.