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We settle by duel: you bring a person, I'll bring a gun.
by nether 13y ago
We settle by duel: you bring a person, I'll bring a gun.
- aaronem 13y agoYou will find, sir, that the challenged party is universally given the privilege of selecting the weapons to be used in a duel; otherwise, it would be far too simple to challenge someone to duel with a weapon with whose use you are supremely competent and he is entirely unacquainted, the result being no sort of contest at all but rather a sort of murder under color of long-cherished custom. Of course, yours isn't intended to be taken as a genuine challenge, but rather as some sort of rhetorical point. I fear, though, that said point entirely escapes me. You seem to be attempting to argue that a firearm makes a more effective weapon than a human carcass, a point on which I cannot imagine there is any controversy; I do not, though, see how that bears upon the statement that no weapon aims and fires itself, independent of human agency -- or do you contend that the AK-47, in addition to all its other fine qualities as a weapon, can do this as well?
- saraid216 13y agoLadies and gentlemen, the etiquette of murder.
- mindcrime 13y agoCan a duel really be considered murder, though? At least, assuming the case where both participants voluntarily agree to participate, it seems an open question to me.
- saraid216 13y agoA duel can absolutely be considered murder. It can also be considered not murder.
- aaronem 13y agoToday, an honorably executed duel would be considered murder, no matter who won. Two hundred years ago, such would not be the case. I can't say which style of jurisprudence on the matter is better; I can't even define a standard of 'better' against which to evaluate them. But a duel certainly seems like a decisive method of settling an otherwise irreconcilable point.
- smsm42 13y agoThe expression "laws or war" should sound very strange to you, yet it exists.
- gress 13y agoI bring Chuck Norris.