Natural law is the combination of cause and effect and physical laws. When someone initiates physical harm to another, the victim will suffer. The act is violence (the violation of initiation). The victim will have less freedom. If a victim is physically harmed that will affect the victim's ability to make certain free will choices because the victim will have to attend to their injuries. Depending on the extent of the injuries, the victim may have almost no freedom due to their incapacitated state. It does not matter what the aggressor and their supporters call the violent act. It does not matter whether the perpetrator and the supporters think the violent act was necessary. The results are the results (violence, suffering and less freedom); this is law.