[ There's plenty of sense in what Miles is saying, but being told to back down from people he gives a shit about is something that Wash has never taken well. He does understand, he does, but he really can't promise anything more than trying -- not to mention, he doesn't think just enduring is going to work. He isn't sure anything will work. ]

Or it just makes them bolder. One drunken asshole with too much mead in him, that's all it'd take for things to get out of hand, and one could easily turn into more.