A spam thread

[Yamaneko]

Most Greeks knew that the earth was round. It was the actual size that illuded them. The flat earth theory didn't really become mainstream until the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, and even then the educated knew this was false. Prior to the Greeks we don't really see inquiries being made into the actual structure of the Earth. Reality was merely the boundaries of one's hunting grounds.

As far as your situational dilemma goes, I would have to know more on how this man was transported into this situation. It would have to follow some logic based on the laws of physics, otherwise I would have to assume it was a dream.

[Citizen Bleys]

Is your story any different than the 'you better believe in God because if you're wrong you will go to hell' argument to be a Christian?

Yes. In Covenant's case, it's not just his ass on the line.

Sounds more like a problem a leper might have to deal with.

Hence the credit to SRD in the opening post.

Imagine you change the scenario so the man doesn't have to fight a champion, but rather has to murder a bunch of unarmed children.

Exactly.

Or what if instead of a champion, it's a bag of marshmellows, and instead of a fight to the death, you are challenged to bake a batch of delicious, delicious s'mores? If you change the question, of course the answer, too, changes.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

Neither man. Even though he was courageous enough to take the coward's way out

[Dr Unne]

Or what if instead of a champion, it's a bag of marshmellows, and instead of a fight to the death, you are challenged to bake a batch of delicious, delicious s'mores? If you change the question, of course the answer, too, changes.

My goal was to change the question in a way that made obvious something about the original question. The fact remains that the "champion" did nothing to deserve death that I'm aware of. Fighting people to the death isn't something you can lightly dismiss.