I try very hard to avoid peasants. Sometimes they kill me via the method Woody mentioned above but usually they happily run off elsewhere and it brings joy to my heart knowing they've gone off being their peasanty selves for at least a few more seconds. It's worth it.
Of course, when I'm shooting my war bow I have absolutely no control where the arrows go with only 139 wpf so I don't care who I shoot then. Archery brings the worst out of people...