October 7, 2009
A Reflection on Cold Steel and Machined Weapons
There is very little doubt that human beings have always developed and tended to achieve more and more. It is partly the need and partly the concurrence. But whatever it is is - it is a natural tendency
Some philosophers affirm that all what people have done to improve their life or to discover something was because of their laziness! I think that all what humankind achieves sooner or later leads to self destruction - it simply turns against us!
Let’s take for example the weapons like Japanese Samurai. Initially they appeared as a necessity to protect against wild animals. Later the weapons developed to offer protection against offensive fellow men. Then, came the period when people fought for lands. Great wars generated new ideas of fighting devices, tactics, strategies, etc. This is the stage when weapons became not only defensive means but also offensive.
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