Poll: Should dueling be legal?
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Well we just disagree with each other. Maybe you have a point though, instead of talking it out, I say we meet at high noon for a gentleman's challenge. Let's make it a gun duel because I still have dried blood on my samurai sword from my last disagreement with someone.Cowabungaa said:
You don't really understand how the societies that had dueling worked, do you.Roland07 said:
Waiters were low class and could never demand a duel on someone of a higher class. Back in the day when there were duels it went something like this--if you were noble and a poor person upset you, you just beat them, or had your servants beat them...and no court would do anything about it. Nobles were the law and could rape and abuse any poor person they felt like. And still keep their "honor" in tact...because lower classes didn't have rights.
That isn't a world I'd like to go back to.
And we still have honor killings today. This usually involves fathers murdering their daughters because they don't like who they are dating.
Great.
Unless they were using pistols. You don't really have to be an athlete to use those.Veterinari said:
if both/all people involved agree to it, sure, were not exactly an endangered species right now. as another poster pointed out though, bureaucracy would make it more needlessly complicated than the violent caveman population of humanity could reasonably circumvent, which would leave a lot of dumb people wanting to kill each other unable to duel, which kinda removes a big social benefit of having duels.
i was thinking maybe local morgues could be expanded to support dueling rings and handle most of the paperwork, which would at least centralize the process.
i was thinking maybe local morgues could be expanded to support dueling rings and handle most of the paperwork, which would at least centralize the process.
Will have to say no seeing as how it could be a major liability to bystanders. An errant shot could kill someone. Plus, there's the legal morass that could ensue if someone was trying to falsely claim participation in a duel or vice versa. It's not a right I have any qualms about giving up.
It would be brilliant. But I could see a whole world of competitive people taking it too far, like they do with conkers.fix-the-spade said:
Some would laquer their handbags and bake them in the oven for toughness, others would fill them with bricks, or pool balls!
They could show the duels on TV.....it'd beat the shit they show on Saturday nights at the moment!
I think it should be legal.
Only stupid people would go for it (the shooting variety, at least), but if two people truly believe something so strongly that they are willing to risk their life for it, or if two people truly hate each other so much that they BOTH COMPLETELY consent to this test of might or luck, I think that it is not the government's business.
As long as both parties are consenting and lay the rules out very clearly, with signed documents and everything, I see no room for abuse and no reason for it to be illegal.
Only stupid people would go for it (the shooting variety, at least), but if two people truly believe something so strongly that they are willing to risk their life for it, or if two people truly hate each other so much that they BOTH COMPLETELY consent to this test of might or luck, I think that it is not the government's business.
As long as both parties are consenting and lay the rules out very clearly, with signed documents and everything, I see no room for abuse and no reason for it to be illegal.
Absolutely, to the death and only to the death between two consenting adults. If it is made perfectly clear that someone will die at the end of it, fewer people will accept and if they do, that's their fault and only their fault.
Mabye, but then again, the strongest person would win; it's no contest.
It's a brutal idea, and it'd be totally abused.
Actually, fuck it, it's a terrible idea.
Yeh.
It's a brutal idea, and it'd be totally abused.
Actually, fuck it, it's a terrible idea.
Yeh.
Yes Dueling should be legal, but only with swords! If what you fighting over is that much trouble a least fight to to death over it!
It's just too much of a burden on society. If you missed a shot, you could hit someone else. If you don't die, insurance will probably have to cover you. And reports of random gunfire everywhere could do bad thing to the police's sanity.
And ultimately, senseless killing in any way, shape, or form just doesn't sit right with me.
And ultimately, senseless killing in any way, shape, or form just doesn't sit right with me.
