Do you CARE if it's sheeple friendly?

Hi Benjamin, here's how I see it.

"How is carrying a knife a question of ethics? It might attract unwanted attention, get in the way of everyday activities such as driving, or clash with your mode of dress ( a large survival knife would look wierd with a business suit, for example,) but how is it unethical? :confused: "

The actual act of carrying "A" knife I'm not referring to, but the decision to carry one type versus another for a specific situation or environment. Busse BM vs. a Spyderco Kiwi for example.
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"The laws are the minimum standard to which we as individuals and a society are held accountable for our behaviour. It doesn't mean we shouldn't hold ourselves to a higher standard."

What do you mean by this? IMO a higher standard would be to keep ourselves prepared. Carrying a gun, for example, is holding yourself to a higher standard than not carrying one. Carrying a first aid kit in your vehicle is a higher standard than not carrying one. It is taking responsibility for protecting yourself and others. Following the Boy Scout motto, "Be Prepared" is holding yourself to a higher standard. Conforming to sheeplism is holding yourself to the lower standards of socialism and collectivism.[/QUOTE]
I guess it would depend on the interpretation of "standard". I agree with a good chunk of your interpretation and context of standard.

However, in Canada it is illegal to carry any weapons. A knife or gun carried with the intent to defend or harm is considered a "weapon" thus not exactly a high "standard" in this sense.

Most of what you mentioned involved in being prepared I agree with safety kits etc. However It doesn't mean you have to carry a sheeple-unfriendly knife or a gun. But that is largely debatable depending on where you live :)

Have a Happy New Year!
 
I do not care if my knives are sheeple friendly or not. (Today I carried my trusty Spyderco Military and my Camillus Maxx 5.5.) I buy, use and carry the knives that I feel comfortable with. I think it would be wrong to limit my choices of carry knives simply because some nut thinks my knives look dangerous. If they would like for me to alter my carry knives, I'll be happy to evaluate any alternate knives they wish to purchase for me. :D
 
No I don't care! I carry and use a knife that is A legal, B useful for the purpose for which I need it.
 
You know some types of people are going to be offended if they think you looked at them crosseyed. I dont go out of my way to be PC :barf:
I do carry my Buck 110 on my belt. I also carry a smaller less "offensive" letter attacker in my pocket. I have had people make comments on the Buck but I nicely tell them that Its against the law to carry a concealed tool. Then if they give me the deer in the head lights look I also tell them I have a small unit and it makes me feel like more of man which usually makes them think a little and have a laugh at my expense.
Steven
 
I don't really worry about it much. Making people uncomfortable is the last thing I want to do but some people go out of their way to be bothered by things and I'm not going to let them run my life. I carry whatever I think I will need to get the job done, could be anything from a 4" fixed blade to a large tac folder to a mid sized gents folder (I guess I don't really have any small knives :) ). Just a matter of what I'm expecting for the day and what I think I might need.
It kind of fits me though. I'm a big redneck, stomp around in boots and jeans and have never had a job that didn't involve being outside and working with my hands. My knives don't really get many bad reactions from people most of the time. I've even had complete strangers walk up and ask to borrow a knife when it wasn't overly obvious I was carrying one.
Every once in awhile you get someone that just insists on going overboard about it, but I don't see any reason to get bent out of shape. Its a personal problem that I can't help them with, if it wasn't a knife it'd just be something else setting them off.
 
yes i care, but in a slightly different way.

i couldn't care less if the knife 'scares' the sheeple, heck even a Spyderco Ladybug is referred to as a deadly fighting weapon by non-nuts......

the only reason i DO care about it, is because i don't like strangers seeing me use my knife in plain view and then call the police about it, because they think i'm probably some psychopath looking for trouble. this is the very reason that i prefer non-reflective blades over shiny big ones...

but where anything else is concerned...the heck with it! :grumpy:
 
I try to be considerate of the situation. I dont go to the bank or the post office with a fixed blade on my hip, but Ive been to several school functios with my LM and a belt folder on. I'm in Vegas weekly and what ever I'm using that day gets carried . On vacations we take the kids to Vegas and I ALWAYS carry lower end users in case I get picked or lose one. (read, Buck 303, Bucklite, Ecco, and MiniMentor in shave bag.)
 
I think that everyone who has posted saying that they don't care what sheeple think is working in an environment where they can carry without any hassle or they are LEOs who can whip out ID if questioned. I work at a university among many people who don't carry. In this environment, I find that my Ladybug or Kiwi are very practical for what I need on a daily basis. Occassionally I will use something bigger like my Native or Mini TSEK, but my keychain size knives work just fine.
 
I care more about people than knives. My knife hobby is a personal thing and I would not like to be known in any circles as 'the knife guy'. I'm not embarresed by liking knives but I just don't like people unecessarily knowing my business. Big, pointy, sharp, shiny knives just look out of place in some settings (such as a clients office) - in my life these are settings were I don't need such a knife anyway.

Out in the bush? No one gives a rats arse what you carry.
 
Perhaps one way of looking at this problem is to consider the "environment" the knife will be exposed to. Is the knife appropriate for the environment?

Out in the woods, or in the Amazon rain forest, is a little, itty-bitty Spyderco Meerkat the optimum knife for the locale? Yes, one could argue that if necessary, one could make do with a folding knife with a sub-3 inch blade.

I'd rather go with a machete in the Amazon, or least a very, very large folder.

In the office setting, are you going to carry that HI kukri on your hip all day?

I'd rather just carry a small folder, like the Benchmade 690. Sometimes I go smaller with a Buck cadet stockman...or the Meerkat.
 
I guess I do care since I carry either a PECK of a jester on my key chain in case I need to use it in from of any sheeple. But this is only so I can carry non sheeple friendly knives too. I like options.
 
Do I care if it's sheeple friendly? I don't belong the 'sheeple' club nor do I care for their uninformed opinions regarding knives. :rolleyes:
 
I always carry an SAK or multitool , both for use around sheeple and occaisonally for loaning out . Other than that I carry whatever suits my fancy . In work clothes I have so much crap on me noone ever notices .
 
So, is it illegal to carry a fixed blade into a post office? :confused:

I went to the main post office here yesterday(Friday) to mail my grandson his Christmas toys they couldn't take back with them when they left earlier this week. I had my BM 806D2 in the left pocket and a 4 1/4" blade fixed hanging off my belt. City cop in the lobby didn't give me a second look and the wife and I stayed and talked with the postal workers for several minutes about the busy Christmas season and no one even blinked at my knife. We wished everyone a Happy New Year and smiled at the officer as we left. If it is illegal then I must be very blessed indeed...
 
You're in FLORIDA :) Try that in a post office in Washington DC :eek:

I'm retired from a career in postal management. We used knives all the time on the workfloor. Do you know how much comes wrapped or banded in plastic or twine? Postal workers should be used to seeing knives around, they're such useful tools for us.

Actually, some post offices have security police around, like the general post office in New York, in addition to the postal inspectors behind the scenes. Those are the offices that would shoo you back outside if they saw you had a serious knife on you.

Otherwise it's a law for the sake of having a law.
 
By the way, any law regarding weapons in a post office would be a federal law, and the city cop would have nothing to do with enforcing it, unless the post office asked for assistance.

That happens, too, of course, like the time we had a suspicious package in my post office and we got the local precinct involved and they called in the bomb squad. :p

Most of the time, though, the postal inspectors don't deal with local crime even in the P.O. and the local police don't want to deal with anything inside the P.O. so everyone stands around waiting for the manager to do something about it.

So one day two of us approached a man with a golf club who was stalking one of the women in the lobby and I grabbed him while the supervisor with me took the club away. Then he left, grumbling. Freaks and weirdos.

As long as you're there to mail something, you're a customer, not the enemy!
 
Hi Runs with scissors, great thread. Thanx fer askin'.

Very interesting responses.

sal
 
Only reason I could think of to go "sheeple friendly" is if I want to keep a low profile. Other than that Im usualy not waving my cuda maxx in the air. I usualy just cut whatever needs cutting quickly. (sneeky like the song mack the knife) ;)

Hope this helps,
Hydraulicman
 
If it would get you fired or arrested I can understand.But to hide your knife like its a porn mag or something hurts us all! People need to see those around them using knives and big ones too.

The day will come when a law,work rule whatever will come and the masses will not oppose it for they think they don't know anyone who would need or use anything like that. Many of you already have to deal with that,and to hide your knife pushes us all closer.

I make it a point to use my large knives in front of folks.When in schools talking to the kids about fire saftey,as a youth basketball coach,cookouts with friends and neighbors (where theres a large number of lawyers,some Professors,sales reps,marketing folks and so forth).

Yep keep hiding them guys and nobody will call you "the knife guy",then again they won't know anyone who needs to carry a knife at all.
 
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