You'd supposed to not tell people they're believing in stupid delusions. That's just name-calling, in the sense that the site guidelines ask you not to do.
The poster thinks that knife crime can be reduced by making knives not pointy. An idea that is rightfully mocked by anyone with two brain cells to rub together. It is ridiculous on the face of it. Anyone believes in it is believing in something ridiculous. Believing in things that are obviously ridiculous is delusional. Therefore it is not name calling. It is a statement of fact.
Repeatedly sending someone a link to the rules do not in anyway stop this from being a statement of fact.
Quite a lot of research is being done on this, quite a lot of police forces support it, and more to the point, British retailers already distinguish between these knives in terms of what young people can buy.
So it's not just one MP and one guy on HN is it?
But I am delusional, for sure, because I believe that experts deserve a hearing.
You'd supposed to not tell people they're believing in stupid delusions. That's just name-calling, in the sense that the site guidelines ask you not to do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The poster thinks that knife crime can be reduced by making knives not pointy. An idea that is rightfully mocked by anyone with two brain cells to rub together. It is ridiculous on the face of it. Anyone believes in it is believing in something ridiculous. Believing in things that are obviously ridiculous is delusional. Therefore it is not name calling. It is a statement of fact.
Repeatedly sending someone a link to the rules do not in anyway stop this from being a statement of fact.
It's your opinion.
This guy (a chef and a long-serving royal marine) has a different opinion, for instance:
https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2025/may/commando-chef-...
This former circuit judge who now works for a knife crime unit:
https://www.fightingknifecrime.london/news-posts/the-need-fo...
This research unit proved that they are less dangerous: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rounded-knif...
The Ben Kinsella Trust supports this, and Let's Be Blunt has done good research on the number of impulse crimes that involve kitchen knives:
https://www.letsbeblunt.co.uk
Quite a lot of research is being done on this, quite a lot of police forces support it, and more to the point, British retailers already distinguish between these knives in terms of what young people can buy.
So it's not just one MP and one guy on HN is it?
But I am delusional, for sure, because I believe that experts deserve a hearing.
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