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Electricity isn't a tool, it's nature. An unenclosed electrical plug which you had to be really careful when handling would be a bad tool, yes.

A tool is something designed by humans. We don't get to design electricity, but we do get to design the systems we put in place around it.

Gravity isn't a tool, but stairs are, and there are good and bad stairs.





A knife then.



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