For my daughter when she was in junior high school. If you insisted on
a rule and justified it because the authority figure said so, you
guaranteed a fight. If you gave reasonable reasons for the rule, there
wouldn’t be any problem. I’ve seen reports that up to 30% of any human
population consists of authoritarians. Those in power want mindless
obedience. Even those not in positions of power want to be
thoughtlessly led and will insist on mindless obedience to authority
and punishment otherwise.

There is a place for warriors. There is a place for story
tellers. Sometimes both groups forget there is a need for the other.

Sometimes you wonder if the human race will ever stop the fighting.

Sometimes you wonder if the human race will ever stop the fighting.