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Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
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Spears don't cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being "sharp" when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.