Dave2 wrote:MasterOfNone wrote:sjfcontrol wrote:How so? Animals eat meat all the time without knives.

Animals have better teeth.
I was about to say something about hot dogs, but then I realized we were discussing meat...
However, my heretofore unspoken point about hamburgers still stands: Hamburgers are meat, and I can eat them without a knife. To be fair, though, I must admit that I often require the assistance of a medium or large chocolate shake.
Anyway, I guess the UK is about to become a liberal meat grinder's paradise.
If one class of tools becomes unavailable, another will be adapted to serve the user's purposes. No matter how many implements they ban, when somebody wants to kill somebody else, he'll do it with whatever he can get his hands on, including a rock or a tree limb.
If they keep going at the present rate, they'll soon not be allowed to have any tools at all in that country. Since the leadership seems to be devoid of sense and the people devoid of courage, there's nothing I can see that might stop it.
Increased use of tools used to be thought of as signs of increasing intelligence and civilization.
There's a clue there regarding the direction in which the Brits are going.