[TheForge] Shortcut Sword?

[Bruce Freeman]

>>> LLesniak@aol.com 11/4/2003 7:03:30 PM >>>
In a message dated 11/4/2003 6:39:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
osan@netlabs.net writes:
There are very few American kids that can do the same today, and I
    firmly believe that they are strongly, if tacitly, encouraged to be
as
    completely helpless as possible; grows em up into pliable adults. 
I find
    it sad, not to mention something of disgusting, but that is the
world in
    which we live.  It's that way because people want it that way. It's
easy
    that way.  It's convenient.  It's simple.  It's without real 
accountability
    for parents.

    Such is life, I suppose.
I'm just a lurker on the list, hoping to get started in blacksmithing
some 
day soon.  But this comment is so right on the mark that I had to add
my two 
cents.  Yes, our society in general encourages young and old alike to
become 
helpless and rely on someone else...anyone else!  
 
 
I, too, tend to agree with Andy on this point.  
 
However, I would submit that the mere desire to posess a sword is a
fair indication of being too immature to posess a sword.  Swords have no
useful function, they are only for killing or intimidating other human
beings.
 
Let the kid hammer out what he can from some good, hard tool steel.  By
the time he manages to make anything he could call a sword, he'll be
captivated by the process, forget the product.
 
Bruce
NJ


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