Because when fighting broke out in the streets nobody was armed and people fought with their fists
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
So while people were injured hardly anyone ever died
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
And what's the point of being a man if you don't die in a fight
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
That actually convinced me that societal progress on the large scale must actually exist
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for me it was reading and discovering the history of childhood and how it has evolved. That and the toilet situation in the Versailles
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @arthur_affect
The versailles does not have toilets and Rowley didn't invent the "wizards just went anywhere" thing whole cloth, let's say
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @AndriErlingsson
I just think about toxic masculinity and how life isn't "meaningful" if you can't die in terrible pain bc someone bit their thumb at you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
It's funny bc you can see the brackets of when that became unacceptable in our culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
Shakespeare wrote when it was starting to go away
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
So he has a character go "Fuck having a fight to the death, I'm taking you to court" and he's a laughable pussy
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Hamilton lived on the tail end of dueling being acceptable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
So everyone understood when Burr challenged him but were shocked when they went through with it and he actually died
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
Jackson won a bunch of duels - he bragged that he didn't bother trying to shoot first, just shot to kill
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