If a woman hits a man is the man allowed to hit back?

[Jade]

Our society drips with violence at every corner, men are raised to have inclinations towards violence to prepare them to be good little soldiers of war. It's one of the oldest functions of society: to create an army, whether to conquer or defend. Justifying or convincing another to go to war to fight and kill strangers who deep down they truly love has consumed a lot of energy of those who have formed the basis of what we understand as humanity.

For me, and here we go breaking those darn gender laws again, my sister was extremely violent towards me when we were children (she broke my collarbone, she would bite my until I bruised severely or even bled, she would break all my stuff) and very luckily for myself I'm the type of person who decided very early, because of extreme abuse from her and others, that if someone did something to me that made me feel bad, I wasn't going to do that to anyone else. There is a lot of programming, however, to make us feel otherwise, and this is there to keep us firmly stuck in the lower chakras out of fear.

One of my favorite advocates of nonviolence, Leo Tolstoy.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

An eye for an eye leaves every man blind. Violence =/= wisdom. There is a reason why Ra says the negative path embraces falsity.