Individual Trust vs Collective Benefit - Should Boy Scouts Keep Their Knives?

[Crazed Rabbit]

You see, when the knife was introduced, it was a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art weapon which was useless against animals, too precious to be used for cutting meat, but just right for inter-species warfare - the most dangerous hunt of them all as they say (although back then this statement was not always so true). Or so the theory goes. Yes, clubs and sticks were used against animals, but knives are perfect against other proto-humans.

Who's theory, exactly? Because even today I'd rather have a baseball bat than a knife in a fight.

CR

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Who's theory, exactly? Because even today I'd rather have a baseball bat than a knife in a fight.

CR

I would rather have a knife...you have to swing a baseball bat.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I would rather have a knife...you have to swing a baseball bat.

Same here, although that's probably due to living in the central belt of Scotland more than anything else.

[Furunculus]

the entirety of page page 2 is OT, though a very interesting debate in its own right.

[Centurion1]

sorry to take this off topic but i must say one more thing.

The knife was the first tool. hunting with stones and sticks came long before inter-species warfare. you could construe that they were also used for defense against predators but the knife should always be considered a tool and not a weapon first.