Poll: Should dueling be legal?

[Atticus89]

Yes, but as long as both participants are blood and organ donors and the widow/widower of the deceased cannot press charges.

Why? If we allow people to potentially kill one another legally over various matters, society may as well get something out of it. Also, the legal system has more trivially important things to deal with.

 

[RingaFiar]

May have been already posted (only read the first few pages) but Fry and Laurie have the ULTIMATE dual right here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe9S0TRXGBQ

 

[MasterChief892039]

Fencing is legal. It all depends on if you're going for lethal dueling or not.

 

[K_Dub]

I say hell yes! In fact, I also say we take it up a notch. Let's bring jousting back!

 

[drisky]

NOOOOOOO!

Jezz after all the time this site goes on about how violent games don't make people violent, there sure are a lot of people here who would like all there problems solved with violence.

 

[bbad89]

I wouldn't mind it being legal. However, I think that it would require a lot of paperwork to decrease the number stupid people dueling each other.

You could have it so that the challenger would have to speak in front of a judge with a witness and have the judge approve the actual challenge. Even from there, all the other person has to do is say no and it would end.

Why is it bad if we have a lot of stupid people killing themselves? It would help the world out A LOT.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I wouldn't mind it being legal. However, I think that it would require a lot of paperwork to decrease the number stupid people dueling each other.

You could have it so that the challenger would have to speak in front of a judge with a witness and have the judge approve the actual challenge. Even from there, all the other person has to do is say no and it would end.

Why is it bad if we have a lot of stupid people killing themselves? It would help the world out A LOT.

I didn't mean to imply that it was a bad thing (I'm personally all for that) but I'm being realistic. The government doesn't want a bunch of stupid people running around killing each other.

 

[Hader]

Yup. What two consenting people do is none of the government's business.

What about the huge strain on emergency services, family and resources?

Do you have any idea how much cost and effort is involved in treating just one person?

That is such a good point to think about.

I wouldn't be to happy about being called to a scene of a duel to render aide to a guy injured in it. If duels were ever allowed again, I say we just deny them medical aide. You know, save time for people who actually need the emergency help. That puts unnecessary strain on EMS, going between people who are intentionally and publicly being stupid and people who have had an accident of some sort and require the 'emergency' part of 'emergency medical services'.

 

[MajWound]

As long as contracts and waivers are signed. And necessary precautions are taken to reduce bystander casualties.

 

[Acting like a FOOL]

if it were legalized I'm sure a type business would spring up around it. one that builds facilities for dueling and selling of various weapons and training programs.

 

[Kortney]

If duels were ever allowed again, I say we just deny them medical aide. You know, save time for people who actually need the emergency help.

But how can you police that? Do they have to sign a form that waves their right to medical care? That would make sense - but what about passers by who see someone lying on the ground with a bullet in them? They surely have to call the ambulance? What about people who feel unsafe when there is a duel around and call the police? How would the average person know when it is a duel and when it is just two idiots fighting each other?

Also, what do we do if someone is lying down in pain and hasn't been killed from the duel? Just let them scream themselves to death? If they are killed, who takes care of the body? A doctor still needs to pronounce them as dead remember.

After asking those questions to myself I have come to the conclusion that we should just leave it illegal! Haha.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Dueling? Really? Are ya'll nuts?

Taking a persons life is taking a persons life, you shouldn't treat it so lightly. Not everyone here is a Pyotr Kirilovich Bezukhov, most will die when it does come to killing. Though, some research on dueling is needed before ya'll say, "hey ho, let's kill us some jerks!"

 

[HandsomeZer0]

If dueling was real i would be the happiest man alive.

 

[Hader]

But how can you police that? Do they have to sign a form that waves their right to medical care? That would make sense - but what about passers by who see someone lying on the ground with a bullet in them? They surely have to call the ambulance? What about people who feel unsafe when there is a duel around and call the police? How would the average person know when it is a duel and when it is just two idiots fighting each other?

Also, what do we do if someone is lying down in pain and hasn't been killed from the duel? Just let them scream themselves to death? If they are killed, who takes care of the body? A doctor still needs to pronounce them as dead remember.

After asking those questions to myself I have come to the conclusion that we should just leave it illegal! Haha.

Haha, I should have mentioned I was being slightly sarcastic

Yes, I know it's not always easy to just separate shit that happens like that. Any paramedic called to a scene should expect to not know what to expect, and it's hard for someone who calls them to understand everything that is going on. After all, it is an emergency.

Point is, I wouldn't really say we deny aide to someone injured in a duel. Though in all fairness, we probably should. But, we really can't, and even if I saw someone in pain and knew it was because of a duel, I would still help. I would just be pissed about it later.

So yes, leave it illegal. Saves so much trouble!

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

It would make the judicial system obsolete and unnecessary if it were.

 

[nerdsamwich]

Many of the unfavorable posts seem to assume that legalized dueling would necessarily involve shoot-outs in the street. Why not in an enclosed room, with a low-caliber, high-velocity round from a single-shot pistol? After every shot, the proctor(yes, formal duelling comes with a referee) has to ask both parties to reconsider while the guns are being reloaded, and either party can stop the proceedings at any time between shots. Or how about rapiers to first blood? There are all kinds of options here, not just hotheads blowing each other away in the street. That's what we have now.

 

[jonyboy13]

Obviously a yes. IT will reduce the stupid people population by a huge chunk.
"He's a professional swordsman but he hit on my wife, IT'S DUEL TIME!"

On a more serious note, it will pretty much make people who are good with guns/swords do whatever the hell they want.

 

[Custard_Angel]

Murder is as murder does.

No is my answer.

 

[Arcticflame]

Sorry to bring boring logic to more of a fun topic but..

Dueling would be a terrible idea, peer pressure would mean weaklings would enter duels and get annihilated by better shots/swordsmen.

It facilitates might is right, which is a dampener on any form of a Civilised society.

It would have to be tightly regulated to the point of it costing a LOT of money.

It would lead to people losing close family friends/relatives, a lot of revenge killing etc etc, it would quickly spill out of a duel and into gang killings.

After all, if someone is better than me at swords and guns, then I'm not going to challenge them am I? I'd still just go for the backstabbing way of killing them.

Bad bad bad idea.

 

[One of Many]

Well, theres a dude I want to duel (its over a woman), so yes, a thousand times yes.