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Cheap is all I can afford sometimes. 
Off Topic No such thing as a bad/ "evil" knife , if it works !
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Didnt it "turn out to be" a tool in the situation we are talking about?Then we won't agree, which is fine.
Development and what something turns out to be sometimes are different.
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I just interpreted him to mean the modern karambits that are decked out with double edges and eye gouging points on the ring, etc. I was looking at karambits online last night at herooutdoors, and this one had a description which said: "Designed and constructed for the modern battlefield, the Delta Defender Assisted Opening Black Karambit Knife takes a traditional design pumps it up with steroids..." I couldn't help but think it was a bit of a silly description meant to entice, not professional soldiers, but mall ninjas.
I'd mod the tacti out of it until there was nothing left but cool.
Or something like that...
I remember back 60+ yrs ago ,when there were basically no "tactical" knives marketed to the public , especially folders . Some military combat fixed blades and stuff like daggers , bowies , kukri etc .By now , tanto style folders are very commonplace work knives and I don't think "tactical" means much except as a marketing term . But 40 yrs ago , they were pretty exotic and exciting .
Switch blades and butterfly knives got banned many places . Most double edged also .
Only time will tell if karambit style become more common or banned .
In the country of origin , only the DE karambit is considered a weapon . Otherwise it's just a common work knife .