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Less dying for and more killing for really. I mean if you are killing the best officer in the US Navy over wounded pride are you doing the right thing? Is it worth setting back your country's Navy by years or decades because it lost such an excellent leader? Is that harm to millions including...

So when does it become frivolous? One duel in history occurred between two women when one asked the other her real age. Another because two men's dogs got into a fight. Is that a contest of honour or one of pride? Also consider Stephen Decatur. He was one of the founders of the USN and...

At seventy paces a thick coat would stop the bullet :p Assuming you hit anything smaller than a house :) Use paintball guns, same test of skill, same win or lose but nobody dies. Unless the whole point of this is that you want to kill people who say bad things about you.

The issue there is that while most don't want to die, a good chunk will want to kill for whatever reason. Any situation involving three foot long bars of sharpened steel or lead shot moving at high velocity holds the potential for a fatality, even if accidental or 'accidental' ;) It is...

I would rather an honourable life than an honourable death, something entirely within my reach without need of duelling :) There is no shame in losing to a superior opponent of course, but there's not much to be gained from it either. You risk creating a situation where someone who doesn't like...

Twitter people can be taken to court for libel or slander and forced to justify their position there, their guilt will be determined by facts by a dispassionate process in which everyone is equal. It is perhaps no coincidence duelling died out at the same time as effective policing started...

It doesn't change anything, just means the people more handy with a sword get to say anything they like and their targets either shut up and have everyone assume it is true, or they lose and don't force a retraction anyway. You just end up with a cadre of master duellists who can say and do...