Thread: The Katana

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with the fact that it's such an effective killing machine, in itself. It is just the notion that people usually use, that states something like "I'm a badass because I've got such-and-such type of gun." To me, it's not much different than saying "I'm as cool as an untrained 12 year old with a Mossberg." There just isn't much bragging rights, there, if you ask me. The word "better", no matter how you slice it, is a subjective word. Some could say a gun is a "better" weapon because it's so lethal, even a caveman could use it. Others can say it's not better, because it's much less honorable, and requires much less skill. Like I said, call me a romantic, but that's just how I see things. I like weapons as an extention of the user - something that actually grants them worthy of being able to end someone's life, or doing the damage that they do. So, our definitions of "better" are probably different.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

no matter how you slice it

This pun cuts deeper than any blade ever could.

PS

You are a romantic. Real honorable people use rocks. Blades are too easy. You can gut someone in half a second, whereas with a rock it takes a lot of grinding and sawing, which is painful to everyone involved.

Originally Posted by Mark75

This pun cuts deeper than any blade ever could.

LMFAO. Damn, I didn't even notice that, when I typed it.

You are a romantic. Real honorable people use rocks. Blades are too easy. You can gut someone in half a second, whereas with a rock it takes a lot of grinding and sawing, which is painful to everyone involved.

And that depends on the size of the rock. When it comes right down to it, I'd choose a good, old-fashioned fist-fight, over anything else, and fighting with a rock is just as lethal as fighting with a sword. It is just a matter of tactics. You cannot inflict the exact same kinds of wounds, but you can inflict some that are just as deadly, or that will immobilize your enemy long enough for you to deliver a fatal blow.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

tactics

You're right. They sure don't use those crazy things in modern combat. These days they just run at each other with big knives and sticks and hack away until the others are dead... Oh, wait.

Originally Posted by Mark75

You're right. They sure don't use those crazy things in modern combat. These days they just run at each other with big knives and sticks and hack away until the others are dead... Oh, wait.

Wow. You focused on that one word like it was the only thing that I said in that entire post. That's kind of left field, even for you.

My point was that you tried to paint the picture of a "romantic" being more likely to choose a rock over a katana, because of simplicity, unilaterally asserting that it's probably not as effective (which is the only thing I could get out of your sarcasm). I was simply saying that a rock can be just as deadly as a katana. In saying so, I was negating your assertion that a "romantic" would choose one of those over the other. The only difference between the two was the tactics in how the wielder used them. What does any of that have to do with comparing them to modern combat?

Or were you just trying to make a point that wasn't really relevant? Hmmm....

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

a rock can be just as deadly

But guns make you even more dead.

There's no such thing a "more dead." If you're not "all the way dead," you're not dead.