Poking the bearYes they are. They want to provoke it to strike first it seems. Violence is not a moral high ground but even amongst two violences there is a greater moral violence and its reactive violence. Reactive violence is more akin to self defence in principal. If they provoke it to strike first it becomes the aggressor and they the defender. It's a switching of the blame thing and can happen very quickly and easily degenerates in a tit for tat situation which is much like a fog of war thing.