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The bigger debate would have been whether the matter should be pursued through the courts or if the defamer should be challenged to a duel.
by saalweachter 4y ago
The bigger debate would have been whether the matter should be pursued through the courts or if the defamer should be challenged to a duel.
- anigbrowl 4y agoHonestly not against restoration of the code duello.
- tptacek 4y agoThat's an extremely Jones-adjacent opinion to have.
- anigbrowl 4y agoFeel free to support that claim in some way. Most of Jones' opinions seem to revolve around the idea that cabals of conspirators are trying to trick people into accepting exploitation or tyranny. I don't keep up with all his different ideas, though.
- tptacek 4y agoYou're asking me to support the claim that Alex Jones would rather try controversies with violence than in a court of law?
- anigbrowl 4y agoYou claimed my opinion was adjacent to his. I would not 'rather try controversies with violence than in court' but nor am I completely opposed to people mutually agreeing to settle them directly (with formalities) rather than submitting them to a third party. It seems like you dislike this idea, and are just associating with Jones who you also dislike. I don't see how you get from his conspiracy worldview to my opinion that an archaic social institution might be worth another look. I don't see duelling as incompatible with having a functional legal system.
- tptacek 4y agoI do in fact oppose the idea of settling controversies with violence.
- anigbrowl 4y agoThat's fine, but it's not responsive to the question I asked you. What does this opinion of mine have to do with Alex Jones? If you're suggesting that all unusual ideas are somehow adjacent to each other, I don't think much of your categorical skills.
- tptacek 4y agoNo, that's a particular unusual idea that I think Alex Jones would find very congenial, was the point I'm making. There are unusual ideas that he would find loathsome; that isn't one of them. I'm not saying anything more than that: it's a thread about Alex Jones, and you expressed a very Alex Jonesian unusual view. Seemed notable, that's all!
- anigbrowl 4y agoSo you keep saying, but I am no wiser as to why you think so and I don't care to deepen my acquaintance with Alex Jones.