Thank you for a good writeup. :) I don't meant to come across as supporting violence instead of more civilized ways of handling things; your point about gettin

Thank you for a good writeup. :) I don't meant to come across as supporting violence instead of more civilized ways of handling things; your point about getting older and being able to handle things nonviolently certain rings true to me. It's more, to me, that that violent stage is very much something that we all go through to one degree or another. Once we're past that stage, we see how silly it is, but if you never grow through and out of it, I think you can't reason about it as successfully. Policies which seek to remove that stage entirely (typically through medication, zero-tolerance policies, or what not) damage the socialization of young adults and children. I think we should provide a safe route to explore and then grow out of those tendencies, instead of trying to pretend they don't exist.