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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8275323" data-attributes="member: 27957">When I was an active fencer, you didn't cross swords without a mask and padded jacket on. Not because you were trying to genuinely hurt each other, but for safety, because accidents happen. These tools are the same. Saying that using proper safety procedures is an insult to manly-men who know no weakness is how someone loses an eye (or a friendship).Are they needed? I mean, the Internet has no shortage of gaming horror stories from when things went wrong. Not always because someone was being malicious, but just because people don't always understands boundaries and triggers well. Especially us geeks with our sometimes spotty social skills.The summer I worked at a roofing tile factory, I was required to wear a helmet and steel toed boots and ear plugs. Not because accidents were expected, but because accidents are by their nature unpredictable and the cost of using a few basic safety measures so outweighed the potential harm of NOT being protected when you needed to be. It's the same risk calculation here. Overblown handwringing about people abusing the X-Card aside, the cost of using these tools is low and the potential harm they can mitigate is high.</blockquote>