Exactly. Force or the threat of force is what props up civilization and makes rights rights.
Here's an example from everyday life. A man may feel himself entitled to a certain level of dignity but that would mean nothing to his fellows if he did not prevail upon them by force, open threat or implicit threat (e.g. quid pro quo) to respect him as a sovereign person.
Your example does illustrate the point, but is problematic for other reasons. (1) The penal statutes of a territory, combined with the police power, force other men to treat him with dignity. (2) Men who are truly bonded in real community voluntarily respect one another by force of love. (3) Although I dream of a future in which individuals are sovereign, anyone who claims to be sovereign today is delusional.
To your second point, everything melts against the force of love but is good will love? I'm inclined to say yes, but I wouldn't want all my neighbors confessing their love of me.
Here's my definition of love: