[Aliantha]

Of course you have the right to defend yourself. You also have the right to choose how you do so. You have the right to choose if you do so at all, or if you put the rights of others above your own.

My question is not whether you do or do not have the right to defend yourself. It's whether it's separate from your right to live or not.

For example, just because someone kills you doesn't mean you didn't have the right to live. It just means you're now dead.

If you had acted on your right to defend yourself, then you might not be dead, or you might still be dead.

Just because you don't achieve your desirable outcome by excercising your right/s doesn't mean you never had them.