Safe School Policy...Win?

In ToK a couple days ago, Mr. Wolf commented that the left side of the room was always the most talkative. In every single class, the left side was the loudest. He then said that, on the bright side, it would be convenient if he were driving in England: they would be the easiest to hit. A group of students on the right side of the room didn't completely understand what he had meant, and started arguing about it. Each person had his or her own idea of why it was supposed to be funny, and each insisted that his or her own interpretation was the correct one. Upon hearing them arguing, he proceeded to tell us the story of the first fight he ever witnessed at IA.

It was his first year at IA, and he was standing outside the music room (which back then was still the lunch room) when he heard two boys yelling at each other. "No you can't!" "Yes you can!" they shouted back and forth. Fearing they would resort to physical violence, Mr. Wolf went over to them to break it up. "Best to let them throw the first punch," he thought to himself. That way, he figured, there would be a winner and they would separate more easily. As the shouting escalated and one of the boys looked as if he was just about to punch the other, he held back and instead shouted, "You don't even have to worry about getting a car to stop in a frictionless vacuum- you could never get it started!" The other boy slammed his fist downward into his palm in frustration, yelled, "Fine!" then turned and stormed off.