Why is it that duels were always held first thing in the morning?
Think 'pistols at dawn' or sabers or brickbats - whatever.
Who wants to spend a sleepless night agonizing about your possible demise?
Why not, "pistols in an hour?" Or "BANG! You weren't expecting that, were you?"
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I say if your legs are that thick, then you should kickbox each other to death. Forget the pistols and swords.
Or
If you are wearing pants like that, then someone should shot a hole in them so that they deflate.
Uh, oh. You may be risking touching on Gibb's 2nd "sensitive point of contact" in less than a week.
Don't get him started on "etiquette in rules of war."
Certainly, if you're civilized enough to abide by rules in your combat, you're certainly civilized enough to figure out how ridiculous it is to fight in the first place. It's mystifying.
As to dawn: I agree: "pistols in 10 minutes" is the way to go.
I wish to dule as much as the next guy, but I agree to a point about the pistols in ten - NO - right freakin' now - bam! if you really want someone dead, never agree to any terms.
And rules in war - yes - I cannot pretend to understand it. NEVER!!
What I think it's hard for MT to fathom is that it is exceedingly rare for war to be about survival. Sure, for those doing the fighting, it's much about survival, but those starting the wars usually are motivated by politics. And these are also the people the determine rules for fighting, much easier to do when war is taken in the abstract.
War is essentially a really crappy version of chess for the people that start them, and of course chess has all sorts of rules.
We all know what it's like to face of against MT in the basketball trenches - not unlike a space wolverine - but his urge to survive his way to the basket is not dictated to by the vagueries of strategy.
war with rules is insane and only one step removed from playing it in cyber-space, the losers reporting for clean incineration, in the morning, perhaps at dawn, after a quick kiss from the wife.
maybe if there were no rules in wars - there would be fewer wars
how can we apply rules to insanity - THAT is insanity
almost like witnesses standing around watching somebody die - somebody court-ordered to die - a scheduled event - complete with delays and partial deaths
No guns before Wheaties. It's a rule.
Love the picture - by the way!
War with rules is insane. Except that the resolution of the war is usually not the end of the struggle. Short of exterminating everyone who opposes you, winning doesn't guarantee anything.
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