Thank you for a good writeup. :)<p>I don&#x27;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.<p>It&#x27;s more, to me, that that violent stage is very much something that we all go through to one degree or another. Once we&#x27;re past that stage, we see how silly it is, but if you never grow through and out of it, I think you can&#x27;t reason about it as successfully.<p>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&#x27;t exist.