Full title: Charondas, an ancient Greek lawmaker, issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Athenian Assembly would be executed. 1 day after hunting, he arrived at the Assembly with his knife still attached to his belt. Realizing he had broken his own law, he chose to kill himself to uphold it.

  • DonkeyStar@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Listen, if I made a law that everyone wearing toe shoes gets a public spanking, then showed up wearing toe shoes, people would assume I wanted a public spanking. Maybe Charondas had some shit going on.