Resorting to violence is ample evidence of a lack of proper development in the perpetrator and evidence of his lack of adequate methods of reasoning. Batterers choose to be violent, decide to be abusive and premeditatively intend to harm, but they are not insane or crazy. They suffer from a learned, progressive, diagnosable, and curable mental disorder. There is no other way to view these men. No well-functioning, mentally healthy person engages in domestic violence.
Nothing justifies domestic violence.
All attempts at rationalizing and justifying it are to be repudiated. Perpetrators are responsible for every act of violence that they commit. No victim is ever the cause of violence done to him or her, nor does he or she ever deserve it. Perpetrators choose violence and are accountable for their decision. The victim is responsible for staying in a relationship with a violent partner.