@Korp I see that as desperation not arrogance
@Persain I do not dispute that the diplo was poorly handeled from their side and could have cost them a lot more if you had handeled it poorly as well, still down in the lower tiers you get picked on so much that you hardly can tell the diffrence from time to time, some get tired of this and snap or quit altogether when they think enought is enought. I advocate looking at both sides of the story and dig deeper, you might find that you learn something, for instance I can assure you that dubble abducts gets retaliated more than twice as often as if you simply do 1x abducts on two seperate provinces, and that is regardless of gains and who you hit, it is simply a matter of mentality.