"Amateurs train until they get it right. Pros train until they can't get it wrong." — variously attributed to Pelé, Stephen Hillier, and others

"The amateur seeks excellence. The professional seeks adequacy." — Jeff Cooper

Bring back dueling. Yesterday.

As most know who visit this blog, I am not asking for a law or permission but the decriminalization of the affaire d'honneur; the gaining of satisfaction by challenging dishonorable scalawags to put their money where their myths are.

While dueling may seem barbaric to modern men, it was a ritual that made sense in a society in which the preservation of male honor was absolutely paramount. A man's honor was the most central aspect of his identity, and thus its reputation had to be kept untarnished by any means necessary.