Death Match

[TheWildCard]

I vote no. Mainly because you open up a can of worms. That will become the new thing murderers  use to get themselves off the hook. Plus, it'd be harder to maintain social order if this was legal.

[TheWildCard]

This is one of those issues that almost amuses me with its idiocy, until I realize I fall on the sides of idiots.

If two people want to sign documentation to say the other one has permission to take the other one's life and vice-versa, what should I do about it? If someone who is mentally stable (perhaps a stretch under the circumstances, but go with me here) would not mind losing their life in the pursuit of fighting someone else, why should I care?

This is, I would hope, not an issue that comes up very often. And if legal, it should at least require a legal agreement beforehand. If someone just says "he challenged me to a death match on the spot, I swear!", I do not think that constitutes sufficient reasonable doubt.
This is one of the issues that I do not care about, in all honesty, but if it came down to it, I'd have to vote to legalize them.

I could see a defense attorney saying something like: My client did not know that you had to sign this documentation for a death match to be legal! He is clearly the victim of our bureaucracy. The specifcations for duels should be made clearer or abolished.

Then if the dfendant is declared guilty it will open up another "serious" like ones about the death penalty. Many will argue that he was just an innocent man who was challenged to a duel.

[TheWildCard]

If you sign a waiver taking all responsibility, and the method is intended to be non-fatal, you can do it. Take boxing, where a death in the ring would not necessarily result in a murder charge to the other party. Two fighters could make it hard to distinguish the intent to go beyond the bounds of mere injury.

OK then someone challenges you to a boxing match. His name is Mike Tyson. You have two choices. If you wall away how does that make you look to your kids? Or you accept and he kills you with one punch leaving your wife alone to raise your kids and your kids are left without a dad. How is that good?

I didn't say it was good. I said that under certain current circumstances it was legal. The point is that to some people it would be accepted, and they would only blame my foolishness, not Tyson's intent if I accepted.

If Tyson were to challenge me, I have no problem declining, and I have no problem discussing it with my kids. OTOH, would he take me up on a challenge to take the physics GRE?

Tyson: Hey you not tell me this Gre guy had no ears! He ain't a person? Wha?

[TheWildCard]

If you sign a waiver taking all responsibility, and the method is intended to be non-fatal, you can do it. Take boxing, where a death in the ring would not necessarily result in a murder charge to the other party. Two fighters could make it hard to distinguish the intent to go beyond the bounds of mere injury.

OK then someone challenges you to a boxing match. His name is Mike Tyson. You have two choices. If you wall away how does that make you look to your kids? Or you accept and he kills you with one punch leaving your wife alone to raise your kids and your kids are left without a dad. How is that good?

I didn't say it was good. I said that under certain current circumstances it was legal. The point is that to some people it would be accepted, and they would only blame my foolishness, not Tyson's intent if I accepted.

If Tyson were to challenge me, I have no problem declining, and I have no problem discussing it with my kids. OTOH, would he take me up on a challenge to take the physics GRE?

Tyson: Hey you not tell me this Gre guy had no ears! He ain't a person? Wha?

hahahaha smarty pants.   OK Tyson is no longer a match for a top heavy weight contender, but against the average man in the street he would be deadly.

Never said he wasn't He simply would get KO'd by the GRE thats all.