“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”?
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.
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.
Pretty obviously, yes
This can also be answered by the answer to your first question.
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”?
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
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.
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.