It’s a maladaptive tendency that is not maladaptive if you grow up feral in a place like rural North Florida. There, if you endure disrespect even once you are then shit on constantly forever. Aggression is the correct response there — but not in much of the rest of the world.
I am not naturally a violent person but North Florida made me participate in violence so much that I just got used to it. That (among many other things) is what is so terrible about those kind of places. It’s not North Florida, but if you want to know what a place like that feels like, watch Winter’s Bone. It gets both rural poverty and the violent nature of such places as where I grew up more correct than any other movie I’ve seen.