We NEED women to be involved, to shame cowards and serial killers both.

Something I noticed about decentralised legal systems - medieval Gaelic and Norse legal systems, and modern Xeer - is that they are very obviously buttressed by the underlying threat of recourse to arms if one party evades arbitration.

Duelling maintains this threat but limits the scope for socially destructive escalation

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