Knives that are not used (long)

[Surfingringo]

A collector is just a hoarder with a bigger house. There is no real distinction, some just like to call it hoarding bacause it has a negative connotation. BTW, what would you call someone who has so much gold bullion piled up that they can no longer get into the room...I would call them rich.

n2s

Hoarding is a sickness. Plain and simple. Most people do, however, collect things without being sick. As far as the man with the room packed with gold bullion? I suppose it depends on what he plans to do with that gold and what power he gives it over his life. FWIW, some of the sickest paranoid doomsday wackaloons I've ever met are gold hoarders.

 

[PNWhovian]

Turns out I like both knives pretty well and carry and use them. Good size, good ergonomics, and I like the features and build quality.

IMHO, this is all that really matters in this business/hobby.
Philosophical meandering aside, get what you like and use it in good health.

 

[not2sharp]

Hoarding is a sickness. Plain and simple. Most people do, however, collect things without being sick. As far as the man with the room packed with gold bullion? I suppose it depends on what he plans to do with that gold and what power he gives it over his life. FWIW, some of the sickest paranoid doomsday wackaloons I've ever met are gold hoarders.

The hoarding versus collecting argument always comes across to me as socialist push for needs based comsumption. Hoarding is said to be a mental disorder, collecting so long as it is orderly, is said to be fine; but, once it goes beyond some ill defined limit, it is called hoarding. I don't buy the need to justify how or what we collect or consume, or how it is maintained or organized. One's man's junk is another's treasure. Clearly, there are people who collect, who have issues, just as there are counterparts who do not collect with similar issues. The disease is independent of the activity; the activity is at best an expression of the illness rather than a determining factor. What's to say that a hoarder's hoard cannot consist of a single item in which they vest an abnormal amount of value? IIRC, the New York Museum of Natural history once purchased a collection of rare birds which numbered into the millions of examples and which had occupied every square inch of a family castle in the UK. It was considered an extremely valuable collection, such that it had to be sneaked out of the UK to avoid public outrage. Did anyone ever call that guy a hoarder? Did anyone ever call the Hunt brothers hoarders when they tried to corner the entire global supply of silver? Hoarding is just a pejorative term for collecting.

n2s

 

[Surfingringo]

The disease is independent of the activity; the activity is at best an expression of the illness rather than a determining factor.

On this we most certainly agree.

*edited to remove rant*

Anyway, I had promised myself to stay out of the "philosophy" thread so I will shut up and leave you all with this.

 

[22-rimfire]

The hoarding versus collecting argument always comes across to me as socialist push for needs based comsumption. Hoarding is said to be a mental disorder, collecting so long as it is orderly, is said to be fine; but, once it goes beyond some ill defined limit, it is called hoarding.

One person's collection is another's hoard. I say.... do what feels right for yourself and don't worry about what other people think about your private doings.

 

[davek14]

Do not walk behind me, I may not lead.

Do not walk before me, I may not follow.

Just buzz off and leave me alone.

For actually funny non sequiturs try Mitch Hedberg or Steven Wright.