• brap@lemmy.world
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    Depends on the knife really. Even just a 1” non-locking blade on a multitool has excellent utility.

    It’s a balance between usefulness and looking like a Crocodile Dundee cosplayer. You take what’s appropriate for where you’re going.

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      I would say that locking blades a generally safer for the user than a non-locking blade.

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        Absolutely. Sometimes jobs exceed the abilities of a non-locker and then it gets dangerous.

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      A smaller blade is less dangerous but not safe. You wouldn’t give a 3 year old a multitool with an exposed knife.

      And the second part of the argument was that you don’t need that utility all the time. 99% of the society can get their things done without carrying a knife around.

      Thus someone constantly carrying around a potentially dangerous tool would look weird. I’m sure a hammer would also have great versatility but when you see someone casually lugging a hammer around you wouldn’t find it weird?

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        A smaller blade is less dangerous but not safe. You wouldn’t give a 3 year old a multitool with an exposed knife.

        You wouldn’t let a 3 year old cook dinner for himself either. A guy owning an oven is a huge red flag

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        “A toddler shouldn’t have one, so there’s no reason to ever carry one.”

        Do you even listen to yourself?

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          Uhh… They mentioned a toddler to enforce the argument that a knife, regardless of size, still carries an inherent risk of cutting oneself.

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            And a pencil carries an inherent risk of poking ones self. Is it unreasonable to carry a pencil with you?

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        You can do 99% of things without carrying a GPS, phone, internet browser, 3 cameras, a compass, an MP3 player, a TV and contents of the Library of Congress around, but no one bats an eye about someone bringing their modern smartphone literally everywhere.