[This is going to be hard to explain... Robert attempts to stumble through the rhetoric.]
... Inflicting harm, of any kind, for... a reason that is not e-explicitly to protect myself...
... I am your partner. I have a responsibility to treat you well, at all times, and you additionally have... a right to bodily integrity. You... you do not deserve to be hit...
... But, also, it is... needless harm. If I do not need to defend myself from you, what reason is there possibly to hit you?
[... He's having trouble divesting the "hitting people in a friendly way/positive context" from actual attacking.]
[Action]
... Inflicting harm, of any kind, for... a reason that is not e-explicitly to protect myself...
... I am your partner. I have a responsibility to treat you well, at all times, and you additionally have... a right to bodily integrity. You... you do not deserve to be hit...
... But, also, it is... needless harm. If I do not need to defend myself from you, what reason is there possibly to hit you?
[... He's having trouble divesting the "hitting people in a friendly way/positive context" from actual attacking.]