Well, adults ultimately manage violence with lethal force, which is essentially what you&#x27;re saying.<p>However, I submit to you that all this is a vital <i>and psychologically essential</i> lesson for kids to learn: recognizing standard issue bullies and dealing with them per the above, and, ideally not too young, recognizing those for whom this won&#x27;t work.  Bullying won&#x27;t stop after e.g. K-12, I myself had to use a credible threat of lethal force to stop an attempt to feloniously bully me in college, and while it ought to move out of the physical realm once you enter the &quot;real world&quot;, bullies abound there as well.<p>Come to think of it, there was a dangerous, held back some so he was bigger than almost all of us, retarded boy who attended my school in 3rd grade plus or minus, who I treated as a potentially lethal threat, and never even thought to applied the treatment for normal bullies.  Instead, that provided a lesson in gathering allies and all that.