Swanson -- Which Way Is Peace?
Which Way Is Peace? Leave a Comment / October 3, 2026 By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 3, 2026 Remarks in Baltimore on October 3, 2026, at event with War Is Still A Lie Thank you to Ronda Cooperstein and the local chapter of World BEYOND War for setting this event up. I recently read a big stack of books on the decline and elimination of dueling. There were thousands of factors, many of them beyond anyone’s easy control, but key among them was cultural change, was bringing people to find greater humiliation in dueling than in not dueling, greater respect in refusing to duel than in being willing to duel. The picture of dueling as noble, respectable, and courageous was replaced by one much nearer the truth: drunken primadonnas misperceiving insults and committing murder for lack of the ability to admit they were idiots. And dueling died by stages. More and more would-be duelists’ so-called seconds negotiated peace. More and more duels ended without deaths or injuries, often ...
