"Trust is like a knife, the hilt is just as sharp as the blade"

hilts are blunt.

I don't get it The hilts of knives are blunt...

Trust is a two way thing. If one person it hurt, so it the other.

See my other plurk about humour being lost when you have to explain things

Ahh okay

But... if you use a knife you don't get cut... that's why they give knives handles that aren't sharp

The point is knives and trust are both a dangerous thing to have between people.

As you can never really be sure on what the result will be

Hehe yeah sorry, I'm just being a pedant

Also you didn't get it in the initial instance