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The bigger debate would have been whether the matter should be pursued through the courts or if the defamer should be challenged to a duel.


Honestly not against restoration of the code duello.


That's an extremely Jones-adjacent opinion to have.


Feel free to support that claim in some way.

Most of Jones' opinions seem to revolve around the idea that cabals of conspirators are trying to trick people into accepting exploitation or tyranny. I don't keep up with all his different ideas, though.


You're asking me to support the claim that Alex Jones would rather try controversies with violence than in a court of law?


You claimed my opinion was adjacent to his. I would not 'rather try controversies with violence than in court' but nor am I completely opposed to people mutually agreeing to settle them directly (with formalities) rather than submitting them to a third party.

It seems like you dislike this idea, and are just associating with Jones who you also dislike. I don't see how you get from his conspiracy worldview to my opinion that an archaic social institution might be worth another look. I don't see duelling as incompatible with having a functional legal system.


I do in fact oppose the idea of settling controversies with violence.


That's fine, but it's not responsive to the question I asked you.

What does this opinion of mine have to do with Alex Jones? If you're suggesting that all unusual ideas are somehow adjacent to each other, I don't think much of your categorical skills.


No, that's a particular unusual idea that I think Alex Jones would find very congenial, was the point I'm making. There are unusual ideas that he would find loathsome; that isn't one of them. I'm not saying anything more than that: it's a thread about Alex Jones, and you expressed a very Alex Jonesian unusual view. Seemed notable, that's all!


So you keep saying, but I am no wiser as to why you think so and I don't care to deepen my acquaintance with Alex Jones.




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