Why people are afraid of knives?

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physh

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My theory is that pretty much everyone has been cut by a knife and they link the unpleasant experience when they see a knife.

I carry a smaller benchmade hk 14210, and the blade is shorter than 3 inches, but i've had many people tell me wow that's a big knife.
 
Its not just knives :rolleyes:
The world is consumed with fear(s)Everybody confesses fear of one sort or another many times a day.
We keep Boa Constrictors as a hobby and people get pretty pathetic about that subject as well :jerkit:

Regardless of topic,the attempts to educate instantly condenses the ignorance.
 
It's the media. In movies and on the news, knives are usually shown to be weapons, not tools. Besides that, it's usually a villain using it. Even if it's a hero with a knife, it's used for killing. Unless someone was brought up with knives, they don't know any different until someone shows them.

Rob
 
Most ppl struggle along without them, and they think it's normal to be biting and scratching at taped up boxes/ packaging.

Yesterday, one of my friend told me he didn't need a knife for anything, then process to spent 15 minutes trying to open the box his new TV came in. One cut with spydie cured his problem instantly.
 
shecky said:
People aren't afraid of knives. They're afraid of people who carry knives.
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I disagree to an extent.

Well known fact that many people are afraid of inanimate objects, especially those that are most likely to be used as a weapon for whatever reason. Kinves , guns , etc. are viewed as horrible instruments of war by many people , especially urban types that have never fished or hunted , much less hiked or camped.
 
Anyone who is afraid of your knives please place them in a sturdy box so as not to injure yourselves and send them to me, I promise they'll never hurt you again.
 
Yesterday my wife and I were laughing in the grocery store because they are selling several knids of apples that have already been cut up (part of a growing trend that already encompasses carrots, lettuce and cucumbers) My wife asked me: "What the hell is this? Nobody knows how to use a knife anymore?". Apparently they don't. Why have a knife when you can pay $3 for an apple that that has already been cut up and put in a baggie for you?

I was at the doggie-doctor the other day and the vet was struggling to open the packaging on a medicine for my buddy Pumpkin. She fussed and fiddled with the plastic, tried to pull it apart, searched through drawers for something to open it with. Finally I just pulled out my knife and opened it for her. She looked like she was going to scream or pee in her pants. "Why do you have a knife?!!!" she exclaimed.
To which I replied: "Um, so I can cut things open for people who don't have one."
 
Good question, the real answer to which is probably a convoluted one. I think one way to put it is that knives are objects that people project certain feelings onto. Maybe some people project fear, uncertainty, pain, death, humiliation, and other sorts of unwanted emotions onto knives because in the popular media and entertainment industries that is the net effect of what they are commonly used for.

Without direct experience of one's own from which one might create a mental map of an object, another way to have a feeling about something is by inference.
 
physh said:
My theory is that pretty much everyone has been cut by a knife and they link the unpleasant experience when they see a knife.

I carry a smaller benchmade hk 14210, and the blade is shorter than 3 inches, but i've had many people tell me wow that's a big knife.
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Well, i don´t think it´s because ppl have cut themselves with knives... But most of the time our knives are big!
 
I have a friend, who's brother chased her with a knife as kid. So, she is a bit knife shy, as far as pocket knives go.
 
I've carried a knife every day since I was 16 and ran into this more than a few times. I got the "you could kill someone with that" about my serrated endura to which I said "I can kill someone with a pen or pencil too" the one that got me was a guy that at sams was helping me load a tv and we needed to cut the box open and tie the truck down. He didnt even have a box cutter and almost wet himself when I pulled out my spydie police model and cut the box up and cut off a piece of cord to tie the trunk down he couldnt get away from me fast enough it was like once the tv was in I turned to thank him and poof he was gone. I've fixed stuff for people with my multitool only to have them turn around and ask me why I need to carry such a thing. Oh and the real fun is watching people act like moneys trying to open a package and then almost faint when you use your knife. But my favorite ones are the people that going CAMPING OR HIKING without a knife because they dont beleave in the violent statement a carrying a knife makes, these people are pratically begging murphy to nail them. Screw'em all keep them sharp and keep them handy cause you never know when your gonna need it.
 
A friend at the local knife club had a table at a recent local gun show, and it came up in conversation that I had given up acquiring modern designs (modern sounds better to me than tactical), and that I had gone after traditionals. He said that traditionals had more character, and they didn't scare people. Sitting at his table, watching what people bought and passed over, he was right. Basically, at least in my neck of the woods, a large traditional style lockback wouldn't bother anyone, but a small modern design would. Whether their misguided opinions are based on pop culture, or their own unjustified fears, I don't know, and I don't care. Family members have become more accustomed to my knives, and some have even started carrying the ones I got for them regularly.

I think that most people view knives as weapons that are used to mug or murder people. They don't realize I don't wanna mar the blade ;).
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I think that most people view knives as weapons that are used to mug or murder people. They don't realize I don't wanna mar the blade ;).
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LOL, so true. One of my co-work as if I'm gonna go kill someone when I handed him my mini manix. I told him yes, but only if I can use $5 tire iron in the truck!
 
Those Meat-Cutter CD's Cold Steel*circulates surely dont help the public view:thumbdn:
Actually compounds several issues IMO. :barf:

T/
 
Yeah the meat test are not real PC way of doing things. But for you guys in the US, if CCW is permitted, what's the logic in not letting ppl carry a knife for? All this talk about freedom, and you have to walk around chewing wrappers off boxes.
 
Fear. Most people are afraid of weapons of any kind. It is a fact that there are people out there who will use violence to further their own ends. (whatever those ends may be) These people believe that simply disarming the violent individual will solve the problem. (Gun control anyone?) Now, if this works in their mind... No weapons = no violence... then is stands that weapons = violence. So if you are someone who carries a knife, or keeps a gun in your truck ect... then you must mean to do violence.

What these people fail to realize that it is the person behind the tool (I don't like the term weapon... my knives and guns are simply tools) that matters. If you intend to cause harm, you will... regardless of the 'tools' at your disposal.

Just my thoughts on the subject.

D
 
My only hope is that, one day, their life depends on having a tool such as a knife. And then they can be subsequently taken out of the gene pool.

These people are led into fear and ignorance because they are weak. Let them be afraid. They only set themselves up with a victim mentality so they can become victims of fear.

Having a good pocketknife on hand is as American as apple pie. I think it's odd when someone doesn't have one.
 
I attribute it to two things fear of the unknown and media hype.
Some people especially in Urban areas are not used to being around knifes other than steak knifes and cheap kitchen cutlery and so are scared of anything else because the only things they see or hear about them are people using them to do violence.
Now I on the other hand have been carrying knives since I was about 8 I am more comfortable with one than without.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Anyone who is afraid of your knives please place them in a sturdy box so as not to injure yourselves and send them to me, I promise they'll never hurt you again.
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You want me to box up the people who are afraid of my knives? Is that Legal?:D
 
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