Nov 15, 2025
A cracktheory about real life: lawsuits have replaced the code duello. Now, as it was centuries ago, the privileged classes now seek satisfaction for "grievances" they have experienced by engaging in a ritualized contest with binding and severe consequences for the loser. And this was only available to the higher classes, and sometimes to those with enough wealth to copy them.
Once one starts thinking about lawsuits as either duels, or as a privileged person beating the crap out of a commoner with impunity, the litigiousness of our society suddenly makes so much more sense.
