the UK gov’s approach to solving crime by banning weapons with increasing granularity is almost respectable if only because it means you periodically get to hear people who believe in that system get a little indignant like “well YOU would understand it if you had to deal with ninja sword massacres”
I don’t think it’s especially dignified to walk around mortified of getting robbed by a man with a knife or gun, but I think it’s even less dignified to try and explain to someone why exactly it’s adaptive to have recurring cultural nightmares where you’re jumped by squall leonhart
starmer announces ban on secret techniques
but what of the demon blade?