Occasionally, a movie (or TV series) will contain a character so consumed by guilt and self-loathing that they go to a bar (it's almost always a bar) and arrange to make a comment (or series of comments) that (eventually) triggers a violent response from one or more of the other patrons. The character is beaten badly and winds up a bloody, bruised and painful heap in the alley or on the floor. Despite the injuries, we are expected to believe that the character feels better about himself now that he has been properly "punished". The OP strikes me as a virtual version of one of these characters.
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