I carry one as a tool used daily.
I carry two more daily for defense of my person.
Each has specific tasks assigned to it and each are available and up to the task when required/needed.
One makes life so much more convenient, the other two make continued living possible should they be called upon to perform their asssigned tasks.
Each of the three are chosen carefully for how they will perform their intended functions if and when they are needed.
I constantly remind others that " a little forethought goes a long way". If you haven't had the forethought to be carrying one you should be left to your own demise when you need one.
Others asking to borrow the cutters who do not have the forethought to carry one themselves should not be loaned a knife. To loan ones knives to another who needs one but never carries one only perpetuates the cycle of them becoming dependant on others for their needs.
One other mentioned that evolution gave most animals weapons on the forelegs and paws, in their mouths, on their heads [ horns ], etc. Evolution has not granted us these weapons to survive, instead we eventually developed a brain large enough to be able to create things to help us survive.
Our brains evolved to allow us to stay warm by making fire, others have fur and feathers. We also became capable of defending ourselves with sticks, sharp edges of rocks and such as we didn't have claws or fangs with which to survive.
Sharp implements with points and edges which pierce and cut like fangs and claws were developed. We learned from the animals who preyed upon us that these pointed fangs and sharp claws were deadly. We didn't have the same things to survive so we developped our own claws and fangs by creating objects which did the same thing to them and at the same time kept us from becoming preyed upon further.
It's not our fault natural evolution designed the deadliest animals to have the sharpest, stongest fangs and claws with which they would be able to survive through a natural selection process.
We don't have the speed of other animals, the strength or size of some, the claws, teeth of others. We have developed a brain with which to create things we are not as fortunate to have like other animals.
Our brains and sharpened implements designed, copied, and perfected from nature have allowed us to rule the jungle. By availing ourselves with these implements and using our brain we have dominated the animal kingdom for quite some time now.
Would you ask the lioness to give up her teeth, her claws? They are the king of the jungle because they are fast and have teeth that puncture and claws that slash. We have none of these by natural selection.
We can choose to carry them on our person however for the possible time we may need to defend ourselves or need to extricate ourselves from harms way. That could be any number of things which will affect the outcome of if we live or die.
Knives make our lives easier to accomplish certain tasks like other animals, theirs are permanently attached and consequently they have no need to "carry" them, nor do they have a choice.
We humans, on the other hand, do have choices. The ones who make a point to carry a knife which makes lifes daily chores easier and perhaps carry one with defense in mind, have forethought and are prepared far better than those who rely on others for their needs and protection.
As in all of nature, the strong survive. If you choose to be strong you will prepare accordingly. Those souls who can't see the need for carrying a knife are unprepared for events that may unfold at their feet literally. They are easily preyed upon by others animals [ even other humans ].
You are prey or you are predator in this world.
Humans developed implements based on our observations of the other animals actions and outcomes of confrontations resulting in life or death encounters.
It's in our nature to survive that man carried knives out of the caves and into the big bad world, to be a predator and not prey. It was a conscious decision and a wise one on the humans part as it turns out.
We are less prepared to survive in the jungle than other animals, yet we prevail in large part because we learned how to use objects like others in nature which were not developed in our species to the same degree.
Knives? Man has always been fascinated with the inherent power they possess and I see no need to mess with something that has been proven over the years.
Knives, love em or leave em. Don't ask to use mine if you haven't the forethought to arm yourself with one when you could have.
Brownie
We love knives; that's not a crime. It's a godd thing.
