Equilibrium between words and violence

There's an idea circling around that in a discussion the first one throw a punch is an automatic loser. But I think it isn't quite so.

But I don't want to fall into the cliche that is to say "words are overrated", meaning by default that violence or physicality is underrated. A fallacy that clearly can be proven by the many examples in Africa.

But what I'm going to do, is dig into a micro sense of the matter.
In a heated discussion between friends, co-workers, or between just two people, about everything, anything or something, there comes a time when as participant you have to chose between stop arguing, repeat over again the same argument or turn aggressive. ( sometimes option 2 & 3 overlap)
And if you pick 3 too many times, it will lead to the first fist flying across the words. But is it, violence, an invalid argument? Not, in my opinion.
If you are not one for spoken words, you're hit with every word you can't remember to say, and mocked by those who say them.

So a punch, to also remember another powerful.
"I'm not afraid of a fight"