[mehagar]

If a tool makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot, then it's not a good tool. See C++.

[jahsome]

I'm no apologist but this statement doesn't ring for me. It's easy to shock yourself with electricity, is it a bad tool?

[crabmusket]

Electricity isn't a tool, it's nature. An unenclosed electrical plug which you had to be really careful when handling would be a bad tool, yes.

A tool is something designed by humans. We don't get to design electricity, but we do get to design the systems we put in place around it.

Gravity isn't a tool, but stairs are, and there are good and bad stairs.

[mr_toad]

Most tools are dangerous in the hands of the inept or the careless. Don’t run with scissors.

[hudon]

A gun is a good tool easy to shoot yourself in the foot with