What this fact

allows us to comprehend, is that the
majority of people don't want to fight and if we can give
them any way out they, and we, will take it. The instinct to
run as opposed to fight, as stated earlier, is deeply imbedded
in our genes
and goes back to mammalian ancestry. Our Instinct In that
dangerous age was sharply honed for survival at any cost,
this usually meant fleeing from wild animals that wanted to
eat us and were to big/dangerous to fight against.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending upon your views),
these instincts are still with us, though we have lost our
understanding of them somewhat. If we flee from potential
danger in this age, especially the male of the species, we feel
-or we are made to feel -like cowards.