"Knives are Only Good for Killing..."

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No kidding. That's what someone at work told me the other day when he sees me showing another fellow my Simonich Salish.

This comment was followed up with "Do you actually think your'e ever going to stick someone with that?" To which I responded "I might."

You see, I'm a soldier in a unit that's getting ready for another deployment. Everyone is getting new gizmos, tools, electronics... Anything they think they might need in the next year, with emphasis on amusments and utility.

Of course, the chances of me or anyone in my unit ever being in a situation where we might have to stick someone with a knife are infintesimally tiny. The Salish is just a great utility knife. It's as comfortable in a camp site as it would be sticking between the third and forth rib of a Syrian Insurgent.

Being in the military, I don't see alot of attitudes like the one sited above. I shudder to think what some of you in the more left handed parts of the country have to deal with.

Incidentally, the person in question intends to spend their spare time in country cataloging indiginous fauna. I wonder how they're going to take clippings and such? After all, a scissors is just a pair of opposing chisle ground knives!
 
I don't understand how I hear about this sort of thing so much here? I live in a big city, go to a liberal college, and no one ever says anything about knives to me. Hell, they all use knives when we're eating, or need to cut something open... In your neighborhoods, what do people use to eat?
 
jemelby said:
This comment was followed up with "Do you actually think your'e ever going to stick someone with that?" To which I responded "I might."
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What you should have said is, I'm thinking about it right now! :D
 
Most people who say things like that aren't really thinkiing about what's coming out of their mouths. They're repeating what they've been taught the conventional wisdom is. When it comes down to doing for themselves, yes, they pick up a kitchen knife every bit as deadly -- or more so -- as the pocket knife or folder they criticize us for carrying.

I've known people to flinch at knives so small I couldn't believe they even noticed them. They flinch at the meme "knife".

Frankly, I don't even understand why they're so opposed to killing people. You just gave a legitimate example. Suppose a robber is shooting into a crowd, rushing out of a store he just robbed? Is killing him, and saving bystanders' lives a problem?

If you have the time and patience, a long, slow, careful explanation can often correct their misimpressions. But don't bet on it. Their training can be very thorough.
 
So he whittles new tent pegs with what, his fingers.

That kind of ignorance makes me violent.

and I paid too much money for my knife to waste it on someone that dumb.
 
I'd say 90% of the people I know carry pocket knives and that's not because either my livelihood or entertainment revolve around knives. It's because we need them on a daily basis as a tool.

But yeah, honestly the only things we really do with them are kill things. If wire needs to be stripped we first hunt and kill a ground hog with our knives and then use it's teeth to strip the wire. Then if we happen to run into a box that defys opening using the power of the force , we then chase after a goose and stab it to death with a case pen knife and then , holding the dead bird by the neck we then beat the box with the bird until it's open or the bird falls apart.

Yesterday, we were confronted with a zip tie that needed to be removed and for a few moments, we weren't sure what to kill to get that zip tie off. Finally, we realized that knives aren't that great at killing things but are great for removing zip ties. ;)
 
Comments like the one by the ignorant soldier are why I show my knives to very, very few people. Those predjudices are just too strong to waste my energy over anymore. :yawn:
 
Most of the people around me try to tell me how a knife is a usefull tool, saying things I already know. But listening to them, it's obvious that they are trying to convince themselves so as to be less nervous.
 
To be fair to the situation, this is the kind of fellow who would argue against the existence of gravity with Sir Issac Newton. His middle initial is "C" for "Contrary."
 
You should tell someone that makes a stupid comment like that, that they're an idiot and should think before they open their mouth and makes such a comment that removes all doubt about it.:cool:
 
Actually to use cognitave dissonance maybe you should have replied to
the question "Knifes are for killing"

by asking

"Would you use a knife to kill someone?"

The answer will be almost invariably "No"

Then ask "What made you ask that then?"

Relax and watch the blubbering it can be entertaining.
 
Maybe you could say "You're absolutely right. Last night I brutally murdered an innocent head of lettuce with a knife. I can't control myself. Please pray for my soul".
 
Ryan8 said:
Maybe you could say "You're absolutely right. Last night I brutally murdered an innocent head of lettuce with a knife. I can't control myself. Please pray for my soul".
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Oh yeah... Now that's funny!!!!!
 
Isnt the Salish alittle on the small side to be going out stalking sentrys ;) If they think that about that knife they probably would have had a heart attack if you showed them an Ontario Helles Belle. Stupid people are everywhere and the more self aware and prepaired you are the more they seem stand out.
 
Let's see..... I open letters, cut open boxes, scrape everything from paint to dog crap off, strip wires, cut threads off clothes, open blister packs, new cd cases, jesus what don't I use my knife for???

Oh wait.... I have never even contemplated turning it on another human being. I would much rather indulge in the satisfaction of knocking some *******s teeth out with my bare hands and pummeling them to the edge of consciousness, rather than use my Benchmade.

Simple reasoning should be inserted here. Beating the crap out of someone is pretty much simple assault and battery. Proving anything else is contingent upon proving your intent; which is pretty hard to do. The second you take your favorite (insert your brand here) knife out and simply wave it in front of the piece of human waste standing before you is attempted murder with a deadly weapon with a whole lot more jail time involved.

VIVA la fist!

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He's partly right. A knife is good for killing. He was only wrong on one word, the "only".

I rather use a gun to kill people than a knife. Although a tomahawk would be awesome too.
 
I kill rainbow trout all the time with knives.

Okay, I lied. Typically I just kill worms with hooks instead. The knives don't even get used. I'm not a bad man, but I am a bad fisherman.

I find it fascinating what bothers certain people sometimes. I've seen time and again where someone is visibly nervous around knives, but can't help handling (and admiring) my swords. One is a tool that can be used as a weapon, the other is simply a weapon. I believe that the irony is often lost on them.

Maybe a pyschologist could explain this.
 
I love when people say things like that. One of my friends once said something along the lines of "What the hell else is a knife good for other than killing things?" (about my monstrously deadly Carson F4) This is the same guy who is constantly saved alot of hassle by me handing him a knife.

For example: Friend goes to light one of his last cigarettes, accidentally drops it straight down between the (actually pretty big) cracks in the sidewalk, tries fingering it out for a while, but can't get it (way past the 5 second rule at this point :p ). So i just reach down and flick it out of the crack with my folder. He mentions to me how it was a good thing i had a knife on me.

It was a rather odd use for a knife but this further shows how useful they are. Aside from cutting fabric, string, plastic, packaging, tape, whittling, cutting food, cleaning fingernails etc, you can also dig cigarettes out of the cracks in sidewalks for your friends who obviously smoke too much...

:D
 
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