I'm not sure I like this. Granted, I'm not pshrinkillogically trained, but
I've been a "is that a book? Gimme, I'll read it!" reader for more years
than I care to admit to, and I've picked up some lay pshrinkology here and
there - and one thing I remember is that certain attitudes and responses to
stimuli get 'canalized' early on, and affect one's perceptions of "similar"
situations later. With the sort of scheme described below, I can see a
mis-association of pain levels to actual damage, and the adolescent or
adult not realizing that the level of pain that they're feeling after that
car accident means that they're in a lot more trouble than they've
"learned" it really means. This could be un-good. Very un-good. Perhaps
even fatally so.

On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:30:36 -0700, Catherine Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
wrote:

>One interesting fictional take: John Barnes, in his series of novels
>beginning with _A Million Open Doors_, John Barnes posits that colony
>worlds were set up to recreate various past cultures (or in a few cases,
>imagined or "ideal" cultures). The narrator is from a world based on
>medieval southern France, speaking Occitan and having a rich troubadour
>tradition. They implant hardware into their children and their dueling
>"weapons" which result in e.g. a sword cut feeling exactly like a real one
>would, but with minimal actual damage. So there's a lively dueling scene
>over the tiniest slights (or just because kids get bored), but not a pile
>of bodies after each nights' carousing. Initiating or accepting a challenge
>still requires sufficient courage to face the likelihood of extreme pain,
>so honor is satisfied despite the lack of bloodshed.
>
>On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I'm working up the outline of a Jotting on duelling. However, I haven't
>> really found a lot on-line about it yet, and I'm a bit fuzzy on applying
>> what I have found to the Far Future. So... anyone have any thoughts, ideas,
>> references, et multae ceterae?
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