When you inflict a hurt, the victim feels the need to hurt you back, and add a little more. It becomes a power struggle and the last man standing wins. Unfortunately, this verbal aggression often leaves both parties on the canvas. The damage inflicted by words will often cause more pain than a physical attack could. Physical wounds can heal, but verbal wounds scar the soul and can last a lifetime.
Abusive language is very likely to lead to aggressive and abusive behavior.
Aggression naturally escalates, and it is likely that most abusive language that will cause physical action, either on the part of the victim or the aggressor. Many people justify verbal aggression because they claim that it is a substitute for physical aggression. The natural escalating tendency of verbal aggression forces emotions to become greater until the built-up hurt from verbal harassment vents itself in a physical attack. Verbal aggression occurs for many other reasons. For instance, psychopathological reasons, where a person attacks others who remind him or her of an unresolved source of hurt, are common.