Preach. My gym teacher Mr. Burns, bless his heart, would famously settle any hint of a dispute by _requiring_ both parties to box three rounds. "Settle it in th

Preach. My gym teacher Mr. Burns, bless his heart, would famously settle any hint of a dispute by _requiring_ both parties to box three rounds. "Settle it in the ring, it's a civilized sport." This was genius because if you were big, it was considered extremely cowardly and unmanly to enter a dispute with someone smaller than you. If you did, your friends would make fun of you for picking a fight with no personal risk, since everybody knew that no matter what it would come to blows. There is neither honor nor glory in a cruiserweight battering a featherweight for six minutes, and everyone knew it. And little guys never picked fights either, for obvious reasons. In fact it ended up in practice that hardly anyone ever disagreed about anything if they were even approximately near Mr. Burns, and we all learned a bunch of very important lessons about character, civility, and how to stay on your feet after you get hit. If I ever have kids I will go to great lengths to have them grow up somewhere like that.