I think the "you need a punch to your face", taken out of context, reads like "I want to" do that. I think you were making a different point than that, but it wasn't clear. The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate such things, because otherwise the default interpretation is going to take over the thread. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... for past posts on this point.
Yeah, I meant it in the sense of "You need to experience violent situations in order to prepare for a violent environment." Furthermore, by "tuning out reality," I meant "ignoring the violent undercurrent of all human affairs by escaping into domestic tranquility."