Mf has never seen a tree in its natural habitat

Knives are normal things to have around. This is like freaking out because you found out someone has a lighter

Huh, you must get afraid in a steak restaurant.

Knife access is needed frequently enough to warrant at least a nice a little slip joint. You can use them to trim loose threads, open boxes, trim plastic tabs/flashings, dig out splinters, remove bee stings...

My wife asks to borrow a knife most days, and when I'm not carrying one, she gets flustered, yet refuse to bring her own.

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.

When I worked at a fast food place I would bring a knife every day, because one of the things you do a lot of is opening boxes and bags and tearing them open with gloves on sucks ass. You seem to be under the impression that pocket knives are chainsaws lol

no, you're just wrong.

I'm flabbergasted as to how you managed to live long enough to learn the English language, and never had to, like, open a box

This does depend on where you live. In a dense city where you always have access to stores and services, it's not as vital. Meanwhile someone who lives and works in an isolated area would want to keep more tools on them or in their vehicle (flashlight, first aid kit, lighter, multitool/knife, etc)

Knives are dangerous. No argument there. Hell, my car keys can be dangerous too. But they are also utilitarian in a lot of different and innocent situations. Having a simple pocket knife is not a bad idea.

1. Cutting open boxes
2. Cutting wire or string or that flat plastic tie used in packing
3. Stripping wire
4. Dislodging items
5. Scraping things
6. Peeling apples
7. Whittling

The point is, I’d be less concerned about somebody having a pocket knife than a gun. But, that may be because I’m from the South and it’s more common down here; not that guns aren’t common, but that knives are very common.

Enjoy your soft bubble wrap life.

Tell that to the EU beurocracts that put a stupid tab in the plastic bottle caps that I now have to cut.

Can you explain in detail HOW knives are dangerous? Like more dangerous than the internal combustion engine.

They're useful if you spend a lot of time outdoors or in almost every blue collar job.

Because they like the utility?

Because it's a useful tool

Because every day im forced to drive an incredibly unsafe machine that has the highest chance of anything i interact with to kill me. A machine so unsafe that in the event of a collision, the safety systems could kill me. My knife has a seatbelt cutter and a glassbreaker, as do every one of my knives. Why would you not carry a knife? Do you carry your keys? Or your wallet? Do you out on clothes every day? You act like its some difficult process to grab my knife when i grab my keys.

I also carry a knife always, use it all the time for boxes and whatnot. Would never consider using it as a weapon for like self defense, that's why I carry the gun at a times.

Knives can come in many varying sizes and form factors, and can be specialized for usage in many practical and commonly encountered situations.

Utility knives take this concept further and often feature multiple additional, opposable heads geared toward other common household uses, such as screw driver heads, bottle openers, nail files, or even little teensy weensy scissors.

Legit question. It's weird to always carry a knife with you. But seems like to be normal for the Lemmy community...interesting.