DO NOT have feelings or opinions
He was by definition trolling. That you don't like it doesn't change that fact. The argument that you should be able to so or do whatever you want because you choose to define it as something else is ridiculous; and I do mean worthy of ridicule. When you say purposefully inflammatory remarks are simply a statement of opinion, you are doing the same thing a child molester would be doing if he said he wasn't really buggering children; he was actually just giving them love. Because that's how he defines love that makes it ok, and more, everyone should also be ok with it or they're being unfair. Yeah, no.
Welcome to the real world. A helpful hint; it does not revolve around your sense of entitlement. I don't have anything further to add here and I have no need to win the Internet so I'm done.
I'll hold you to your first statement in your post












And all the lawyers came out to admonish the 'troll'.