Poll: Should dueling be legal?
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I didn't mean to imply that it was a bad thing (I'm personally all for that) but I'm being realistic. The government doesn't want a bunch of stupid people running around killing each other.bbad89 said:
That is such a good point to think about.Kortney said:
I wouldn't be to happy about being called to a scene of a duel to render aide to a guy injured in it. If duels were ever allowed again, I say we just deny them medical aide. You know, save time for people who actually need the emergency help. That puts unnecessary strain on EMS, going between people who are intentionally and publicly being stupid and people who have had an accident of some sort and require the 'emergency' part of 'emergency medical services'.
if it were legalized I'm sure a type business would spring up around it. one that builds facilities for dueling and selling of various weapons and training programs.
But how can you police that? Do they have to sign a form that waves their right to medical care? That would make sense - but what about passers by who see someone lying on the ground with a bullet in them? They surely have to call the ambulance? What about people who feel unsafe when there is a duel around and call the police? How would the average person know when it is a duel and when it is just two idiots fighting each other?Hader said:
Also, what do we do if someone is lying down in pain and hasn't been killed from the duel? Just let them scream themselves to death? If they are killed, who takes care of the body? A doctor still needs to pronounce them as dead remember.
After asking those questions to myself I have come to the conclusion that we should just leave it illegal! Haha.
Dueling? Really? Are ya'll nuts?
Taking a persons life is taking a persons life, you shouldn't treat it so lightly. Not everyone here is a Pyotr Kirilovich Bezukhov, most will die when it does come to killing. Though, some research on dueling is needed before ya'll say, "hey ho, let's kill us some jerks!"
Taking a persons life is taking a persons life, you shouldn't treat it so lightly. Not everyone here is a Pyotr Kirilovich Bezukhov, most will die when it does come to killing. Though, some research on dueling is needed before ya'll say, "hey ho, let's kill us some jerks!"
Haha, I should have mentioned I was being slightly sarcasticKortney said:
Yes, I know it's not always easy to just separate shit that happens like that. Any paramedic called to a scene should expect to not know what to expect, and it's hard for someone who calls them to understand everything that is going on. After all, it is an emergency.
Point is, I wouldn't really say we deny aide to someone injured in a duel. Though in all fairness, we probably should. But, we really can't, and even if I saw someone in pain and knew it was because of a duel, I would still help. I would just be pissed about it later.
So yes, leave it illegal. Saves so much trouble!
Many of the unfavorable posts seem to assume that legalized dueling would necessarily involve shoot-outs in the street. Why not in an enclosed room, with a low-caliber, high-velocity round from a single-shot pistol? After every shot, the proctor(yes, formal duelling comes with a referee) has to ask both parties to reconsider while the guns are being reloaded, and either party can stop the proceedings at any time between shots. Or how about rapiers to first blood? There are all kinds of options here, not just hotheads blowing each other away in the street. That's what we have now.
Obviously a yes. IT will reduce the stupid people population by a huge chunk.
"He's a professional swordsman but he hit on my wife, IT'S DUEL TIME!"
On a more serious note, it will pretty much make people who are good with guns/swords do whatever the hell they want.
"He's a professional swordsman but he hit on my wife, IT'S DUEL TIME!"
On a more serious note, it will pretty much make people who are good with guns/swords do whatever the hell they want.
Sorry to bring boring logic to more of a fun topic but..
Dueling would be a terrible idea, peer pressure would mean weaklings would enter duels and get annihilated by better shots/swordsmen.
It facilitates might is right, which is a dampener on any form of a Civilised society.
It would have to be tightly regulated to the point of it costing a LOT of money.
It would lead to people losing close family friends/relatives, a lot of revenge killing etc etc, it would quickly spill out of a duel and into gang killings.
After all, if someone is better than me at swords and guns, then I'm not going to challenge them am I? I'd still just go for the backstabbing way of killing them.
Bad bad bad idea.
Dueling would be a terrible idea, peer pressure would mean weaklings would enter duels and get annihilated by better shots/swordsmen.
It facilitates might is right, which is a dampener on any form of a Civilised society.
It would have to be tightly regulated to the point of it costing a LOT of money.
It would lead to people losing close family friends/relatives, a lot of revenge killing etc etc, it would quickly spill out of a duel and into gang killings.
After all, if someone is better than me at swords and guns, then I'm not going to challenge them am I? I'd still just go for the backstabbing way of killing them.
Bad bad bad idea.
No. We as a species are violent enough as is. We don't need legal encouragement for two people to get together and try and kill one another.