<p>'tisthetruth: Come on, don’t be inane. Obviously younger children are discouraged from fighting - it’s far more difficult for younger children to grasp the kind of formalized self-policing involved in fights, and far more likely for the kids to get emotional and make the fight into something it shouldn’t be.</p>
<p>I personally don’t have any problem with baseball fights. Everyone on the field knows the honor code, they either follow it or there could be a fight. There’s no power asymmetry in these fights, no one gets seriously injured (no, bruises and scrapes don’t count), and at the end of the day tensions are resolved. Win, win, win, in my opinion.</p>