After reading all the posts, I've come to this point with a few things that need to be said.
It does not matter a whit if you're camping with city folks or boy scouts or any other group of people. You have to keep in mind, that we, the knife knuts, are only a fraction of 1% of society at large. Most of the "normal" people out there will carry a sak or some other knife on a camping trip and be fine. And in truth they are. But we knife knuts who are obsessed over anything with a blade will over load ourselves with cutlery, to the point that the so called "normal" people will look at us like we are nuts, because we are. We're not the norm, and when you venture outside of what most people are used to, you will get looked at a little funny. Get over it.
If you are going camping with those other people, Why not be a little more circumspect than you would be when by yourself. Part of being a part of society is getting along with others, and that means not ramming your love of something in their face. Recognize that we are not "normal", and take a little care. Bad behavior by just a few, can mess it up for the many. I see a lot of these posts, and it seems to me that a certain number of young knife knuts like to act like they are just going along, but I think a great many of you get off by flashing your cutlery, and going a bit over board to mess the the people. You enjoy the reaction of the sheeple as you call them.
If you hate how knives are portrayed as weapons, you only have to look toward Hollywood and the knife manufacutures as the guilty party. The knife makers pay for product placement, and you all buy the increasingly outlandish cutlery because it's featured in some movie, video game, or TV show. How many of you have bought some tiger striped bladed knife because it was on NCIS?
If your going camping with people who are not knife nuts, the best way to alienate them to your hobby is to show up like a pirate going looting. Why not just have one or two very nice knives, one folder and one sheath knife, and if they show interest in what you are carrying, pass it over to them, and let them examine it while you explain the good points of better cutlery? Start slow if you're trying to show them the way to a better knife, but don't bludgeon them with knives by showing up looking like some charater out of a video game. Show some adult restraint. Going camping in the lower 48 states is a pretty tame business. You're not going to be hundreds of miles off in a wilderness. You're not a mountain man, buffalo hunter, or commando. Take it easy on the non knife nuts, because they vote too, and we're too few. We can't afford to alienate people to our hobby.
Carl.
Could I get by with a small axe, sak and FB? Sure. Do I want to only have that at my disposal? Hell no, I take every chance I can to use my gear which isn't often enough... 
