Tell someone they're about to cut themselves or not?

Cynic2701 said:
I think you make a very good point.

However, there is a limit to the amount of leeway you should give people. For example, had she been waving a loaded gun around, I am sure you would have reacted differently.

To relate this back to knives, if she had been waving around a sharpened...say...Swamp Rat Waki, I would have been concerned with her lopping off one of her own limbs.

Within a reasonable bound, I definitely agree: they should learn from experience.

The difficulty is this: what are those reasonable bounds?
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absolutely, i totally agree. depending on the severity of the situation i will let them find out but like you said, if its in a camp environment or something similar and someone is about to swing a 16" survival blade right onto their hand, of course i will tell them. i was talking more about the op's situation where its just a small chore.
 
My knives, I just don't let the uninitiated handle them anymore, they are sharper than normal people can really understand.

Watching someone else struggle, I'll just do it for them...generally with one of my knives.

Ever see people who drag their finger along (vs across) the length of a blade to check it for being sharp? *shudder* With mine lately, they'll find out...
 
If I'm focusing intently on a cut a people feel the need to distract me to say that I should be careful the odds of me hurting myself are much higher, but I cut stuff professionally for a living for over a decade and I'm pretty good at the awareness thing.
I will actually get very irate if someone continually distracts me when I need to focus.

If it's someone with an ego that's incompetent I'll issue one warning and then let them learn their lesson.
Children? If it's a play thing, then I'll take the knife away and give it to their parents... they can yell at me all they want, I've done my part. If it's really bad, I'll look for a cop to give the parents/kids a talking to.

The LAST thing you say to someone carefully slicing tomatoes is, "BE CAREFULL, YOU'RE GOING TO CUT OFF YOUR FINGER!" in a distracting way.
It's like calling up someone's cell phone while they are driving to tell them to pay attention to the road.
Distractions = far more mistakes than usual.
 
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