A Good Rule of Thumb

When I was young my father warned me against a couple of things. One of them was that you shouldn't go looking for trouble. The other is that you shouldn't mess with anyone that has less to lose than you do.

My father also knew that there was a low chance that I would become a frontiersman and ride around on a badass buffalo and shoot things.

In that case...the rule of thumb would have been...seek trouble and cause it where you don't initially find it. You're on a buffalo for Christ's sake. Don't be such a Nancy boy...punch a cougar if you feel like it. A real cougar. Not the 40 year old skanky chick at the bar.