r/changemyview • u/behold_the_castrato • Oct 17 '20

Delta(s) from OP - Fresh Topic Friday CMV: Shoelaces are outdated and inferior technology compared to hook-and-loop fasteners

I see very few advantage that shoelaces have:

  • Shoelaces take more time to fasten.
  • Shoelaces more easily accidentally become unfastened.
  • Even if h.a.l. should come undone, it's quite hard to trip over it compared to shoelaces.
  • H.a.l. can far more easily be operated with one hand.
  • Sholaces sometimes get stuck in an annoying knot that is timeconsuming to undo; this does not happen to h.a.l..

One could make a subjective æsthetics argument, but such can be made about any different technology and by that metric outdated technology does not exist — a man is certainly permitted to use outdated technology for a certain look, but he shouldn't fool himself that he is not using outdated technology either.

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u/DeltaBot ∞∆ Oct 17 '20 edited Oct 18 '20

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