[SnowTroll]

Most people in the mud you play are probably telling you to just let roleplaying resolve that type of issue. If a series of successive crazy people keep showing up and picking fights, they get slapped down and killed, right? But I'm more with you on this, though probably for different reasons. Forget the fact that this player is an out of character griefer or is continuing out of character vendettas with successive characters. I don't care about that. The roleplaying just doesn't make sense from square one.

If a character is a violent psychopath who picks fights with relative strangers over verbal arguments, he or she shouldn't exist, because the character never would have survived to adulthood in an intolerant world where people like that would have been killed years ago, or at the very least, had an impossible time finding work or feeding themselves. They would never have reached the state where they're a viable mud character with skills and abilities, able to lurk around in a public area in your mud and pick fights with people.