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Sheffield-based company Viners has produced the "Assure" range, square-ended knives which are "shaped to reduce and prevent injuries, accidents and fatalities." With knife crimes in England and Wales at their highest in a decade, a 3% increase on last year and the highest level since 2009, this new knife is intended to not be used in crimes and only in the kitchen. While anti-stabbing messages have been left on fastfood containers and a crackdown on knife crime has been tried, for which included limiting the sale of knives, so far nothing has blunted the knife based problem.
When have social problems been solved by technical solutions?
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 20 2020, @02:27AM (5 children)
One of these days you're going to break your legs, jumping to conclusions like that. And isn't it incredibly hard to see when your vision is only 1-bit monochromatic, pure black and white?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @07:07AM
Or, we could just break his legs for him, being the naturally violent fellow citizens he believes we are. Can we? Twice on the right leg?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @04:42PM (3 children)
Do you think that equality for all will eliminate violence?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 21 2020, @12:10AM (2 children)
Nope. Humans seem to have about a 1-in-80 rate of sociopathy at least among males, and humans as a whole seem to be competitive by nature. But it would go a long way to 1) eliminating many forms of and reasons for violence and 2) making it less likely for situation to arise in which people feel a need to *be* violent.
Don't fall for the Nirvana Fallacy ("Never mind," i.e., making the perfect the enemy of the good).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 21 2020, @03:00AM (1 child)
No. Psychopathy is 1%, Sociopathy (ASPD) 3% and NPD 1% with some overlap. That is not 1-in-80 for individuals we would generically call "sociopathic" so where are you getting that figure from?
In Iran it is illegal to be homosexual so they have the highest rates of transgenderism in the world. The rates of NPD in the LGBT community are... ouch! [nih.gov] So there's over half the LGBT community with an abusive personality disorder. I attempted to discuss this with you before, now I'll just say be careful where you point your finger - and take care of yourself.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 21 2020, @03:31AM
Yikes, so sociopaths are even more common than I thought? That explains a hell of a lot.
Where were you going with that last paragraph though? That seems like some kind of underhanded sneak attack following some complete non-sequitur. If you have something to say to me, say it outright. And, as you've said, careful where that finger points...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...