#thrusts are generally considered deadlier than cuts because of their ability to hit vital organs and end a fight right there

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Point of order: stab wounds have a very low fatality rate today, because medical science has made a lot of progress in the last hundred years or so. Historically, or in any other context where you don't have access to modern medical technology, they're basically impossible to treat. You still won't immediately fall over dead from Small Knife In Gut Disease, but you will die slowly and painfully over the course of hours, days or even weeks from internal bleeding and infection.

one of my greatest pet peeves in fiction, and it is truly stupid I know, is that no one seems to understand how genuinely hard it is to kill someone via stabbing. stab wounds have a mortality rate of like 5%. especially abdominal stabbing. tv shows and movies show dudes getting stabbed one time in the lower abdomen with a tiny knife and then they fall over. like what did he die of precisely. that man died of Small Knife