Your insistence that Arbery died because of his own actions, and not the actions of his now-convicted assailants is absurd, and it displays a fundamental ignorance of how most humans behave. When confronted with a threat of grave bodily harm, humans, and many animals, most often react in one of two ways - they try to flee, or they turn to fight and defend themselves. This "fight or flight response" is involuntary - the person may have very little control over how their body responds to a serious threat. In this case, Mr Arbery did both. He initially tried to run away, and when he was finally "cornered like a rat" (in the words of the assailants), he turned around to defend himself. This is normal - this is what humans are instinctively programmed to do. Your assertion that Mr Arbery should have overcome millions of years of evolutionary programming and meekly submitted to his assailants, after being subject to over 5 minutes of vicious, repeated aggravated assaults is absurd, and contradicted by everything we know about how the human body reacts to threats of immediate bodily harm, and the facts of this case.
But lets look at this further. It is impossible to know what the assailants were thinking, but their words speak volumes. "Stop or I will blow your fucking head off", "Fucking n****r" are some of the things we know they said during the course of their assault, or immediately following the assault. And we know that the McMichaels had a long, documented history of being racists, as evidenced by the things they said to their friends and colleagues. Given that they had armed themselves and assaulted Mr Arbery for over 5 minutes with their trucks and their guns, it is reasonable to infer that they were fully prepared to harm or kill him. They were not there to politely detain Mr Arbery until the police arrived (in fact, they weren't even talking to the police/911 for the majority of this encounter), they were there to impose their version of justice, right there on the street, with their trucks and their guns. They were there to hurt or kill Mr Arbery.
You were wrong the first time you made the assertion that Mr Arbery's death was his own fault. You are wrong now, for repeating it. And you will be wrong in the future, when you (likely) continue to repeat this assertion like a parrot, oblivious to the facts.
