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It makes one wonder how the modern equals would do? Yes, we have street fights / protests between "soldiers" and pedestrians. Each equipped with their standar
by ynac 6y ago
It makes one wonder how the modern equals would do?
Yes, we have street fights / protests between "soldiers" and pedestrians. Each equipped with their standard tools - lopsided as they may be. The question becomes more of a matter of context for a modern battle.
What is a modern knight and what is a modern peasant in 2020 and also, what locale?
(We could also use a booklist for this discussion - I keep bringing back scenes from Pillars of the Earth)
- Beached 6y agomodern night would be a standard equiped military soldier from a first world country. modern peasant would be an average civilian from a third world country?
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- C1sc0cat 6y agoIl just leave this from Kipling "A scrimmage in a Border Station- A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride! " You'd just change "ten-rupee jezail" to a second hand AK And plenty of "third" world civilians have guns
- damnencryption 6y agoI wonder if modern peasants can fight and win against the knights. You can't own a knife in many countries without a license let alone a gun. It's all tracked. There are targeted missiles, drones, autonomous guns, surveillance, radar, bombs, tear gas, tasers, tanks, bullet and knife proof clothing, exoskeleton, etc available to the knights. Knights are many times more organized than they have ever been in history. Recent incident in Nigeria where military massacred the protestors: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54630592 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54630592 How do you protect yourself as a peasant against the Knights?
- magicsmoke 6y agoKnights still have to be fed and armed with the taxes of peasants, and they'll follow the orders of the societal structure that funnels them those taxes. You protect yourself by getting involved in politics and shaping the economic and cultural power balance of your society so you don't get to a point where you need to use violence against state security forces. Once you reach that point, you've already lost.
- brazzy 6y ago> You can't own a knife in many countries without a license What kind of bullshit propaganda is that? There isn't a single country in the world that requires a license to "own a knife". > let alone a gun. It's all tracked. There are targeted missiles, drones, autonomous guns, surveillance, radar, bombs, tear gas, tasers, tanks, bullet and knife proof clothing, exoskeleton, etc available to the knights. However, there's a lots of things relatively freely available to peasants that can be turned into a bomb capable of killing any knight who's not in a tank. And even a tank can have a bad time in a city full of hostile peasants. > Knights are many times more organized than they have ever been in history. This is a the big one. Organization really matters to make the technological advantage count. And it ivolves knowing in what situations that advantage wouldn't work well, and avoiding them.
- damnencryption 6y agoYou require driving license to buy knives and you can't carry them in public without a special license.
- sarakayakomzin 6y ago...and you continue to avoid naming a country where this is the case?
- damnencryption 6y agospain, france?