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I've been looking over quite a few custom knife pages recently, trying to decide what my first custom will be. I've been impressed, dazzled, wowed and won over more than once. I have however, noticed something.
The names of many of the knives i have seen, many of them works of art, have been fairly aggresive, for lack of a better word. Names such as "Predator", "Attack" and "Assault". I'm not naming anyone in particular, and this tendency to give knives "scary" sounding names persists in the factory market too.
I've seen it before, when i rode Mountain bikes for a long time, this tendency to give things impressive names. But Mountain bikes are fairly innefective weapons, and judged differently by society.
We are in an age where knives are being blacklisted by more and more of the "Sheeple", and although we cling to our rights, they are being taken away. The laws in my country should hammer this home to all who have at least relatively reasonable laws now. We need to do everything we can to keep the laws reasonable. I can't help but wondering if calling knives names like these is helping.
I may be being pedantic here, but every little bit helps, and i was surprised at some of the names as a Knife knut, it hardly bears thinking about how the public would react to some of the names.
Just my .02, as always. Although with the current exchange rate of the Australian dollar, that would make it about .012
James
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The beast we are, lest the beast we become.
The names of many of the knives i have seen, many of them works of art, have been fairly aggresive, for lack of a better word. Names such as "Predator", "Attack" and "Assault". I'm not naming anyone in particular, and this tendency to give knives "scary" sounding names persists in the factory market too.
I've seen it before, when i rode Mountain bikes for a long time, this tendency to give things impressive names. But Mountain bikes are fairly innefective weapons, and judged differently by society.
We are in an age where knives are being blacklisted by more and more of the "Sheeple", and although we cling to our rights, they are being taken away. The laws in my country should hammer this home to all who have at least relatively reasonable laws now. We need to do everything we can to keep the laws reasonable. I can't help but wondering if calling knives names like these is helping.
I may be being pedantic here, but every little bit helps, and i was surprised at some of the names as a Knife knut, it hardly bears thinking about how the public would react to some of the names.
Just my .02, as always. Although with the current exchange rate of the Australian dollar, that would make it about .012
James
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The beast we are, lest the beast we become.
