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Why would someone who is willing to plan a surprise attack on an enemy instead agree to a formal duel?

• smabie 4y ago
  Well no legal liability in the duel
  • kmoser 4y ago
    Dueling was largely illegal, which means lots of legal liability for the combatants as well as any one who facilitated the event.
  • komali2 4y ago
    Gang members tend to prefer to exist outside all forms of legality. A formal duel would probably just be seen as cop shit.
• barry-cotter 4y ago
  Because these are not mostly disputes over money or material goods. They’re over honour. If the broader society showed some sign of caring about honour the way petty thugs who do drive by shootings to receding slights do they’d shift to the societally airbed way quickly. In the bourgeois society we have where dignity not honour is how worth is ascribed there’s no script for them to follow. Insofar as society is becoming victimhood based on how it conceived worth that’s equally unappealing. https://scholars-stage.org/honor-dignity-and-victimhood-a-tour-through-three-centuries-of-american-political-culture/ https://scholars-stage.org/honor-dignity-and-victimhood-a-to...