This brought whole different can of worms. Since this is still unresolved issue of how to interpret laws between natural laws "by spirit of laws" and formal laws "by black and white letters" traditions. Obviously, you and I are on different sides of the gulf since my beliefs are "The ends do not justify the means" and there are always different ways to do things. So let's not get dragged in this quagmire unresolved yet by even the best legal minds.
In the case of general Chinese novels here, they were more likely went out their ways to wack more people first, long after the very first justifiable self-defense, and that hardly okay on both your and mine books, I presumed?