You wouldn’t necessarily have to kick their asses, but usually standing up to them in some way, even if you get your ass kicked, will lead to them backing off. They don’t want to get punched even if they win the fight.
not the case with my bullies. They didn’t mind my standing up them. If fact they liked it because they knew I’d make a fool of myself in the fight and that they could easily win the fight. No, I would have had to kick their a**es. I’ll tell you if I had a tardis, the first thing I would do is go back in time to when I was a kid and bring a base ball bat and find the bullies. 😉 Yeah, it would a be a grown man beating kids with a baseball bat, but those a**holes deserve it.