Dueling Vs. Courts

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  1. Soviet Streltsy Well-Known Member

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    I've recently thought this through and found it a funny and interesting prospect. What if instead of going to court and having a lengthly and expensive legal battle, we just go back to dueling. I think it would be an interesting ordeal to settle one's claims by testing one's trigger finger or his skill of the blade. What are your thoughts on the matter?
  2. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    That was more of an honor thing than solving legal disputes.
    In the words of Charlie Murphie, "Even back when slapping was fashionable, you know, whip him with the glove and 'I challenge you to a duel', they would still have a gunfight after that, you know, someone had to go!".
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    Well I mean, just going back to dueling in general. I don't care about the back story just how that story ends (in a duel of some sort).
  4. Romulus211 Proconsul

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    would we use Modern pistols or Old Pistols because that is the most important thing.
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    Swords, preferably rusty for maximum gore/pain...yeah I'm wierd...
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    Either, just make sure that the pistols only have one round in the chamber.
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    I was thinking they can use magnums and twirl the barrel before they opened fire, kind of Russian Roulette meets dueling if you now what I mean.
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    If we go back to sword dueling, I will never lose a legal battle in my life.
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  9. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    The thing with pistol dueling back in the day was that the pistols were to inaccurate that you would have a nearly non-existent chance of killing the person you were dueling. Today firearms to to accurate the amount murder that would crop up would be unreasonable.
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    I think I'd fare better in a courtroom than on a dueling field.
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    What if the dueling field was in a courtroom?
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    What, I don't even...
  13. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    So long as only verbal shots are fired, Kali will do fine.
  14. Imperial1917 City-States God of War

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    There is a good reason that the idea that the strongest in an argument is widely NOT used as a legal determination in trials.
    Its illogical and unbalenced.
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    Paintball, no one gets hurt except their egos.
  16. Soviet Streltsy Well-Known Member

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    Unless they get shot in the balls or the face.
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    But still you'll live.
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  19. Imperial1917 City-States God of War

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    Terrible, terrible idea. The same problem still applies.

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