Like many here, I associate with, and work with, many who we affectionately refer to as sheeple.
And I get all the typical sheeple questions.
"Why do you carry that huge weapon?" (this is asked at work, of my Boker Subcom folder!)
"Why do you own all those knives?"
"Why do you own all those guns?"
"Why do you carry firarms?"
Yesterday, my 19 year old neice, a left wing liberal raised by her left wing liberal mother, my baby sister, was visiting from college. She was admiring my knife collection, and she truly appeciated it for two reasons: she's very artistic, and appreciates the aesthetic aspects, and she's "into" every Japanese, so she's knows the importance of knives and swords in Japanese culture.
Then, she asked me a question I had never been asked before. "Why do you keep all your knives so sharp?"
My brilliant, well thought out response, was "Huh?"
She continued, "I mean, you could collect knives that weren't sharp. Why do you want them sharp?"
My neice is, like her mother the federal prosecutor, fond of starting arguments for argument's sake. But I don't argue with 19 year old college students because they know everything already and won't understand that they don't for a few more years.
So I told her, "I don't collect objects that look like knives, nor collect things that look like guns. Functionality is one of the aesthetic aspects that attracts me to guns and knives, and a knife that doesn't cut isn't a knife, and a gun that doesn't fire isn't a gun."
It was a unique question for me. I thought I had heard all the sheeple reactions. I was wrong.
And I get all the typical sheeple questions.
"Why do you carry that huge weapon?" (this is asked at work, of my Boker Subcom folder!)
"Why do you own all those knives?"
"Why do you own all those guns?"
"Why do you carry firarms?"
Yesterday, my 19 year old neice, a left wing liberal raised by her left wing liberal mother, my baby sister, was visiting from college. She was admiring my knife collection, and she truly appeciated it for two reasons: she's very artistic, and appreciates the aesthetic aspects, and she's "into" every Japanese, so she's knows the importance of knives and swords in Japanese culture.
Then, she asked me a question I had never been asked before. "Why do you keep all your knives so sharp?"
My brilliant, well thought out response, was "Huh?"
She continued, "I mean, you could collect knives that weren't sharp. Why do you want them sharp?"
My neice is, like her mother the federal prosecutor, fond of starting arguments for argument's sake. But I don't argue with 19 year old college students because they know everything already and won't understand that they don't for a few more years.
So I told her, "I don't collect objects that look like knives, nor collect things that look like guns. Functionality is one of the aesthetic aspects that attracts me to guns and knives, and a knife that doesn't cut isn't a knife, and a gun that doesn't fire isn't a gun."
It was a unique question for me. I thought I had heard all the sheeple reactions. I was wrong.
