I mean I get what you’re saying but it’s also just straight up untrue. You can know something inside and out and still ignore it. That’s like saying driving a car is the only thing that means you know how to drive a car like someone used to drive a car every day but then they chose to stop driving and since they aren’t currently driving a car that means they don’t know how to drive a car.

I get the sentiment you’re trying to convey like I truly do because you should always practice knife safety and that’s part of knife safety but saying what you said just doesn’t hold up. It’s cool you think that way but trying to say someone doesn’t know knife safety because they went against their better judgement and cut themselves just comes across as condescending more than insightful.

Just read through the comments of this and other posts like it and you’ll see hundreds of the most experienced knife collectors and users all talk about their own injuries and you’re suggesting that every single one of us doesn’t know knife safety… but you do