> *Obviously this isn't true 100% of the time, but more often than not. See, but that's the crux of the entire issue, and you (nor the OP) have not offered sta

> *Obviously this isn't true 100% of the time, but more often than not. See, but that's the crux of the entire issue, and you (nor the OP) have not offered statistics backing this up. Anecdotes are not data, so I don't care if this "worked for me" or whatever. A bully who gets his ass kicked, or doesn't win soundly enough, could easily escalate the next encounter with a knife or bat or something worse. Or maybe not! I don't know, neither do you or the OP, and so maybe we should not be making authoritative declarations about these things without consulting actual research.