Stoopid & foolish answers expected?

Question

How did dueling originate?

Answer 1

Does this mean you don't want the intellectual response? Pitty, because here it is:

By 1804, dueling was another American custom. However, the history of dueling goes back to the Middle Ages, where European nobles defended their honor.

In 1777, a group of Irishmen wrote the Code Duello

Answer 2

Everyone else had good answers, but I'd like to add one, a "stoopid" and foolish one.

Duelling originated when one duke said he wanted the property and the other duke told him no. The first duke was about to order his men to kill the other when his wife, a uniparous queen, got down on her knees before him and said there must be some more civilized way to settle the matter. The first duke, seeing it would not benefit him to also order the pregnant wife beheaded (yet), acquiesced, tapped his fingers for a moment while thinking. As he did that, one of the servants just happened to enter the chamber and start complaining about how he always has to fight the crowds while fetching water on guillotine days. That's when the duke realized a good way to win and to gain a lot of publicity and popular favor and then proclaimed, "Aha! We shall duel to the death, mwahahaha! That is the only fair way to decide who shall own the servant's late father's vineyard."

Completely made up of course.

Answer 3

Duelling was unknown to the civilized nations of antiquity. The contests of the Roman gladiators were not, like the duels of today, a means of self-defence, but bloody spectacles to satisfy the curiosity and cruelty of an effeminate and degenerate people. On the other hand the custom of duelling existed among the Gauls and Germans from the earliest era, as Diodorus Siculus (Biblioth. history Lib. V, ch. xxviii), Velleius Paterculus (Histor. rom., II, cxviii) and others relate. The duel is, therefore, undoubtedly of heathen origin, and was so firmly rooted in the customs of the Gauls and Germans that it persisted among them even after their conversion. The oldest known law of Christian times that permitted the judicial duel is that of the Burgundian King Gundobald (d. 516). With few exceptions the judicial duel is mentioned in all old German laws as a legal ordeal. It rested on a twofold conviction. It was believed, first, that God could not allow the innocent to be defeated in a duel; hence it was held that the guilty party would not dare primarily to appeal to the judgment of God in proof of his innocence and then enter upon the fight under the weight of perjury; the fear of Divine wrath would discourage him and make victory impossible

Answer 4

Physical confrontations related to insults and social standing pre-date human society, but the formal concept of a duel, in Western society, developed out of medieval judicial duel and older pre-Christian practices such as the Viking Age Holmganga. Judicial duels were outlawed by the Lateran Council of 1215, but in 1459 (MS Thott 290 2), Hans Talhoffer reports that in spite of this, there were still seven capital crimes that were still commonly accepted to be settled by a judicial duel: murder, treason, heresy, infidelity towards one's lord, blasphemy, forgery and rape. Most societies did not condemn dueling, and the victor of a duel was regarded not as a murderer but as a hero, his social status often increased. During the early Renaissance, dueling established the status of a respectable gentleman, and was an accepted manner to resolve disputes. Dueling in such societies was seen as an alternative to less regulated conflict.

Answer 5

since the beginning of time that man first walked on this planet and met another human being he disliked. Heck even animals duel with each other. Its natural.

Answer 6

a long time ago, there were two town brutes, who wanted everything. of course, 2 people can't own it so they agreed to stand back to back and move forward. one is to have the north and the other the south. they started walking towards opposite directions but because of the greed of wanting to own everything, both turned around to shoot the other. both were dead before they hit the floor and the townspeople lived happily ever after. the end.

Answer 7

From the word 'duel'

Answer 8

it started in the year 1532 AD on a local bar.when someone asked somebody to answer a question foolishly blah blah blah blha....

Answer 9

well i am glad you asked that question because i have no idea but i am sure there is a good reason not just stupid pride and a lack of inteligence between 2 men..that cant be it...

Answer 10

it started in the garden of eden