Re: [Mid] Wearing Swords

On Wed, 7 May 1997, kerry d lude wrote:

> On Wed, 7 May 1997 00:28:44 -0500 (EST) Aaron Bilodeau
> <abilodea@indiana.edu> writes:
> >
> > This is a fascinating discussion.
> >
> > I, personally, feel that anyone should be allowed to wear
> >swords if it makes them feel important,
>
> Not everyone who wears a sword wears it to feel important. Believe it or
> not, there are some who wear one simply because it goes with their
> persona. Knights were not the only people allowed to wear swords in the
> middle ages. Anyone who spent any time travelling usually wore a sword
> simply for protection.

        I absolutely agree with you. There are many reasons for wearing a
sword, and frankly the reason couldn't matter less to me unless it were to
actually use it.

 > > I bought a sword nearly three years ago but have never worn it at
> >an event because all it makes me feel is pretentious.
>
> Does that mean that everyone should feel pretentious?
>
        Did I say that? I was only stating how I feel. How you construed
that to be a judgement on how people should live their lives is beyond me.

>
> >Indeed, if anything, watching someone toting a tool they don't know how
> to use
> >simply for the image of it is a source of amusement to me. Let them
> >make fools of themselves. It's no skin off my back.
>
> Image, at times, is everything. Like you said, what difference does it
> make to you? But does that mean that they are making fools of
> themselves, simply because they want to wear a sword and you feel
> pretentious if you do? Live and let live, and stop getting down on
> everyone simply because you don't agree with them.
>
        Now this has gone too far. If you recall, my view is that anyone
should be allowed to wear what they want and those who are upset by it
should just relax. Nowhere did I say that everyone who wears a sword is a
fool, nor that they should feel foolish. I plan to wear my sword someday
when I feel I have earned the right. I am an authorized fighter in the
lists of the middle kingdom, but I believe my persona would not wear this
weapon at a fair or in the streets, a good stout cudgel being fine for my
purposes. However, I do not hold anyone else to my standards and believe
other people should be allowed to live their lives as they see fit as
long as it harms no one.
        Political considerations aside, I was perfectly willing to coexist
with you peacefully until you accused me of "getting down on everyone
simply because you don't agree with them". I DO NOT stand for being
falsely accused and if you wish to discuss it further I suggest you
take it up with me personally.

        Corwyn Draca,
        Shire of Mynydd Seren

From: Aaron Bilodeau <abilodea@indiana.edu>
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