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[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Is this a joke?

Pretty obviously, yes

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This can also be answered by the answer to your first question.

A neo-Nazi slaps an antifascist activist in the face and challenges him to a duel. Would it be "chuddy" for the activist to accept?

It would be pretty stupid, so I guess, yeah?

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

It would be pretty stupid, so I guess, yeah?

"Chuddy" is not a synonym for stupid. An offended parent challenges a schoolteacher to a duel by insulting him and slapping him in the face, because the schoolteacher gave his kid a bad mark. In a fit of rage, the schoolteacher accepts the duel, loses the duel, and dies. The offended parent is not arrested, because it was a duel, and winning a duel is not murder. Was the schoolteacher "chuddy"?

[-] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

being prone fits of rage lasting long enough for you to agree, arrange and fight in a duel seems like a chuddy trait to me

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Consider the alternative where the school teacher doesn't accept and nothing happens to them. That fit of rage is doing a lot of lifting. "Get away from me, maniac" should be all you need for face and dignity. I don't know where this idea that slapping someone being permissable because they say the magic words of offering a duel comes from.

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I don't know where this idea that slapping someone being permissable because they say the magic words of offering a duel comes from.

I agree that it's absolutely ridiculous in a modern context where dueling has died as an institution, but historically for one to refuse a duel from a person of equal or greater social standing than them would ruin one's reputation.

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