Re: bending stereotypes
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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
People in power don't like anything that threatens that power. Trial by combat would be far too unpredictable when they can just kangaroo the court in their favor/desire.
Not to mention that if "your guy" lost then you would loudly claim cheating and around everyone goes again.
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The King of France at the time did not have enough power to stack the deck in a high profile trial without consequences later and in any case he did not have that much personal interest either. The main problem was that it was a he said/she said case.
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Last edited by jason taylor; 09-13-2016 at 06:17 PM.
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