How is it a duel if it is just law enforcement enforcing the law?
My bad, I didn't provide enough detail. The method of the "showdown at noon" used in the song seems to me a temptation of God in a similar manner to judicial duels.
McHugh and Callan
1437 (b) The decision of doubtful cases before the courts was the purpose of the judicial duels fought among the Germans and Lombards in the early Middle Ages. But manifestly such duels are a temptation of God, since they rashly call on Him to disclose, through a duel between the litigants, what the evidence in court did not disclose. The outcome of the duel shows which party is stronger or more skilful, not which is in the right.
Oops I spoke too soon, this above here. Yes law enforcement doing their jobs is not sinful, provided they are actually doing things according to God's law, i.e police cannot follow a sinful law.
If the sheriff/ranger is enforcing the law , do you know of any Catholic moral theology that would justify a "showdown at noon" rather than attempting an arrest? It's just something that has been a question for me after previous reading on duelling and listening to the previously mentioned song.
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