The Pen or the Sword?

[Snow Dragon]

First person to say "guns" gets stabbed in the eye with a Bic. The question is which of those two is stronger than the other. Put that question in any context you'd like, but there are only two options.

[SweetSophia]

I've always preferred the Pen. Swords are kinda hard to write with.

[Snow Dragon]

I've always preferred the Pen. Swords are kinda hard to write with.

Hey, it worked for Zorro :p

[Rowan]

Pen. Hands down. Never take a pen to a sword fight.


If the pen is mightier than a sword, and a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a fax worth?

[Helel]

how much is a fax worth?

About ten cents a page.

[Zoey]

A pen isn't gonna stop a blood crazied barbarian, so I would like a sword ^^

[Mitera Nikkou]

On many historical occasions there were those considered barbarians that saw and learned the importance of the uses of penmanship, including Genghis Kahn and Alaric, just to name a few. The key issue here is communication and, while a sword can certainly communicate, it's far more limited in the ways of language as a pen is. The main difference, I think, however, is that while a sword is easier to use to start a conflict, a pen can stop it before the utter destruction of either side. So I guess they more or less balance out each other in that regard and it's just a matter of preference between the style in how they attack and defend in certain circumstances.

But I think I'll go with a pen. It's harder to guess what the written meaning could be until read as opposed to the immediately possible meanings to the drawing of a sword. I like subtlety better.

[Helel]

I think I'd rather have a pensword.

Great for cleaving barbarians AND raising taxes to choke off the poor.

[Mistress Guendolen]

I like pens. They're small, and so subtle, and they can dash a person to a million pieces in a way more fundamental and cutting than any blade. Yes, a sword can hurt you physically. But the pen can cut you straight to the heart, leaving pain that doesn't kill, but can bleed indefinitely.

[Rowan]

Plus you can still kill someone with a pen.

[Stellar]

On the tip of my tongue an offensive is poised and rearing
My intention a bullet, my body a trigger finger

Yeah, my pen is a Pistola
I don't need to fear, fear you
Yeah, my pen is a Pistola

My secret arsenal is an infinite ageless inkwell
It's a fountain of youth and a patriot's weapon of choice

Yeah, my pen is a Pistola
I don't need to fear, fear you
Yeah, my pen is a Pistola

On the tip of my tongue an offensive is poised and rearing
My intention a bullet, my body a trigger finger

Yeah, my pen is a Pistola
I don't need to fear, fear you
Yeah, my pen is a Pistola

Incubus ~ Pistola

The pen baby!

While I'm at it lemme quote Chaucer from A Knight's Tale, "I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity."

The ability to write something and have it last for ages and be interpreted by people you could never dream of is far more satisfying then winning a battle (Don't get me wrong, both are equally important, without the propper course of history and all the battles waged, we would likely not be here, likewise without the education to read and write we could never follow our own paths and build our own morals to deter 'right' and 'wrong.')

[Metroidvania]

In this day and age, a pen will do so much more damage than a sword could.

Kill one man, and you're in jail for life.

Ruin a man with words, and he's gone, and you've won without risking yourself.

[Rowan]

Scritch, scratch, written word
A Victory eternal.
Blood dries quickly, Sword.

[Raleigh]

I choose a pen simply because I like to write to be honest, and have already caused some problems for those that have pestered me in a way though its application. A sword I do love, but a pen is so much more useful in the end. Nevermind what you can do with a pen even if you lose if you opponent doesn't apply one. You will be the ones remembered in the history books whereas all anyone can say about them was that they were brutes who caused you problems.

[Nylena]

Honestly...the sword-pen that writes in the blood of your slain foes.