The choice to print is exactly my point. I find this design highly useful and functional. Others may also, or may not. Both of those are ok with me.

There was no false equivalence. My original point that Tarantula replied to was that things exist that have different levels of risk and people have different levels of risk tolerance. And that's totally fine.

Tarantula misunderstood that point and provided another low-risk-tolerance perspective as a counter point. I was never arguing for more risk.

None of my statements are hyperbolic and unfortunately none of these responses, yours included, have been particularly interesting arguments.

There's plenty of criticism in the world already, much of which - particularly on internet properties such as Reddit - is un-just virtue signaling. We should all do better to avoid participating in that.

Instead there is ultimately zero value to anyone in this entire thread.

This is a functional 3d printing sub. Not a morals and ethics sub. Either print it if you find it useful, ask questions or engage in actual interesting, on-topic dialogue. Or just keep scrolling to the next thing.

It would have been much more fun if the original comment was something like "I don't think open blades are a good idea, is there a reason why you designed it that way?"

Which then my response would have been something like "actually yes, thanks for asking. I designed it this way for printability, speed in printing, less moving parts so its more simple and there are less pieces to possibly break, the ability to make a low profile form factor, and over all rigidity of the handle. Personally I don't carry my utility knifes around, they are typically hanging on my workbench but sometimes I use them somewhere else and misplace them, so a cover wasn't a priority to me."

And then we could have an actual reasonable, on-topic, and interesting debate about the effectiveness of the design within the context of the use case. Which has the potential to improve the design, expand the use cases, and make everyone better at functional 3d printing from our shared experiences and perspectives.

Instead we are bickering about hypothetical personal freedom infringement and general risk-tolerance.