> I'm sure a lot of that attitude was just posturing I'm guessing that it had a lot to do with the differences in transportation and communication at the time.

> I'm sure a lot of that attitude was just posturing I'm guessing that it had a lot to do with the differences in transportation and communication at the time. You had to leave your house and your fields and possibly your family and then go far away and start making the people back home, who are near your house with all your stuff in it, very angry at you. It was an interruption in the business that you the leading burgess in your town and a position of physical and financial (and reputational) vulnerability.