Yeah I'm really loving the central bank right now

It could just be me, but I see no shame at all in declining a duel. Or are we going to go back to when the challenged get to choose the weapon and location? Naked, with whips, to the death would likely make most people trained with a firearm question it. I'm not sure how popular whips are, but I wouldnt consider myself completely inept with them and could probably tag their twig and berries pretty early on in the fight.

TIL POTUS is also a notary.

As is Australian Rules Football.

Polish sabers.... I want to cut him to ribbons

Honestly, just giving everyone one free face punch per year would be a good start.

i think the issue with consent is that when power imbalences are involved, it becomes very hard to tell if it is actually present.

like someone whose needs are not met can be pressured into giving consent for things they do not actually consent to, in exchange for what they need most.

we really need to make sure that everyone is provided for and social power imbalences aren't too big, to make consent actually work.

I think it is necessary to have some limitations to avoid people being pressured or coerced into 'consenting' to things they really shouldn't. Because otherwise you're going to get scenarios where it's rather dubious to imagine someone really sincerely consented to getting killed.

Consider something like Squid Game. Every participant joined the games voluntarily, at least on paper. They're even given the opportunity to leave, only for many of them to come back because their lives in poverty are that bad, and they have families who need the money, need it so badly that they'll take such an extreme risk. So is that consent? Should that be a legal form of dueling? Or is the entire message of the show that it very much shouldn't be?

We also don't do this, because it will lead to people agreeing to be killed for money. Also you'd need everybody involved to undergo a mental evaluation. We wouldn't want manipulable people bring killed for sport. Because let's not kid ourselves, that would absolutely happen. And so we just don't allow it at all.

people have the right to consent to anything being done to their body or not, but also that consent can be given or rescinded at any time.

• Challenge someone to a duel

• Pistols at dawn

• The instant they fire, yell out "I don't consent to this!"

• Die anyway

• They go to jail for murder

I think this is too individualistic of a framing for something that has a real cost to the community and society as a whole. Even putting aside the moral problems with you killing yourself and leaving your family, there's also a legal issue with you abandoning your dependents.

If a father goes and gets himself killed in a duel he's not just harming himself, he's harming both the children and mother of the children who depend on him.

And on a grander scale society has taken care of you for many moments in your life and it is only fair that you contribute back to the society that raised you.

Whether you like it or not you have certain duties to society and society has a legitimate interest in preventing you from getting out of those obligations by killing yourself.