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When I consider it, I think that you wouldn't fight that often, and when you did, it wouldn't emphasize knockout blows; that while you would fall often you would naturally mind your head; that casualties of fights in wars were fewer than casualties on the march. In fact I suspect that there was no folk wisdom of head shots making men change over time because there was no career where you would intentionally put yourself in the way of many blows to the head and survive that for long enough.
(Anecdotally, Lermontov's The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov specifically describes a formalized fistfight at the city fair. The titular merchant, his wife disgraced by the tsar's official, deliberately strikes him in the head and kills him. It can be assumed that head shots were forbidden or at least heavily discouraged - he is tried for manslaughter, as opposed to the outcome being judged an unfortunate but natural outcome of the fight).
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