[RipSawyer]

"I've had to step in and stop things and get adults involved where in my day we'd have just let the kids duke it out."

Just yesterday I mentioned to a couple of thirty year olds at work that I used to carry a pocket knife in grammar school and when the teacher needed to open a box she would ask one of us boys to loan her a pocket knife. They both looked suspicious and one commented that we must not have used them for what people use them for now. I replied that they were a tool and in those days two guys would get in a fist fight and not pull their knives. One of the young guys accused me of telling fairy stories at that point. I turned to another man who is my age for backup and he looked at them and said slowly and quietly, "yeah, that is how it was".
In those days it was far more of a disgrace to pull a weapon than to lose the fight.

[RonF]

In those days it was far more of a disgrace to pull a weapon than to lose the fight.

I have related this very concept myself to kids, and met with the same skepticism.

One of the great values of the BSA is that it teaches young men and women what the concepts of Honor and Duty mean. They're not learning it otherwise. In fact, the Marines a number of years ago had to institute a "Values" component into Boot Camp because not enough of their incoming recruits understood these concepts anymore.