the.com/aggressor
The one who threw the first punch and wants to discuss your tone instead.
means The person or nation that starts a fight or attack, rather than the one responding to it.
from From Latin aggressor, 'one who approaches or attacks,' built from the verb aggredi — ad- ('toward') plus gradi ('to step, to walk'). So at its root, an aggressor is simply someone who 'steps toward' another — a motion that could once mean approaching peacefully, but narrowed over time to mean stepping toward you with hostile intent.
- legal weight
- international law hinges entirely on naming this first
- psych trick
- aggressors usually believe they are defending themselves
- UN defines it
- 1974 resolution lists seven specific qualifying acts
- etymology
- from Latin aggredi, literally to step toward