Chopsticks are better than forks

While you refute my arguments by stating that those arguments do not have a place here because proving that chopsticks are no worse than forks do not mean they are better, you contradict yourself by repeatedly saying that forks can do anything chopsticks can, which is equivalent of those arguments that you tried to refute.I was simply making claims that while chopsticks are superior to forks in some areas, they are no worse than forks in other areas, making chopsticks superior overall. They were had place in my arguments. You will want to go over those arguments over again.They allow for more precise manipulation of food - A frequent user of chopsticks may use chopsticks to fold a lengthy piece of food and then pick it up, in a blink of an eye (not really, but you can do it as if you were doing it with your own hands, only you are using one hand). Folding foods is more troublesome when attempted with forks. When eating a cuisine with a lot of broth and pieces of foods floating in it, a fork user will have hard time picking up the floating pieces. One will have to move the pieces to the sides of pot/bowl and then use the side to skewer the piece (You can try to scoop it up, but this makes it very likely for you to drop the piece of food, as the food is just sitting on the fork). A chopstick user will simply pick it up. If you are eating out of a bowl that is full of food and want one piece of food sitting on top, you have no choice but to skewer the food below it as well, bringing in other less wanted pieces of food. A chopstick can be used to pick up individual pieces of food or many pieces of food at once, depending on how you want to eat it."They are easier to produce, maintain and dispose [...] I don't think so.You need to have demonstrated that forks are superior first, before you made a statement that pros outweigh cons. To me, this is just "one of many pros" of using chopsticks, not "one pro in a pool of cons" as you look at it."Believe it or not [...] that its not easier with a fork.A piece of meat that chopsticks have hard time piercing and splittng will be even harder to cut with a fork. When piercing with a chopstick, the surface area is very small compared to when you press down with the side of a fork.Rebuttals to Con arguments of chopsticks:c1.a. I stated that the fact that something is easier to learn is not relevant. Once one learns to do something, it does not matter how easy it was to learn, but how efficient and useful it is. Granted, one of the reasons why guns were deemed superior to bows and arrows was that guns were faster to learn (I am not talking about modern day rifles, which are obviously better. I a talking about the first muskets). However, this was only superior from standpoint of the governments, as they needed to raise large armies quickly. Muskets were slow loading and a skilled bowman could shoot three to four arrows in the same time it took a skilled musketeer to load and fire one round, and at a much longer range. Obviously, the superiority of bows and arrows on battlefields is not affected by the fact that they are harder to master, just as the longer time taken to learn to use chopsticks should not matter when judging it as a eating utensil.c1.b. I will agree that it is hard to use chopsticks with left hand. However, there is no reason to ever use chopsticks with left hand, so this argument does not hold.c1.c. You may think, "then, the manufacturabilty and recyclabilities, etc, should not matter. Well, while learning to use chopsticks happens only once in a person's life time, using up and having to deal with waste is a constant process, and thusly, it is way more relevant than how easy they are to learn.c2. You need to state some evidences or examples. My argument is that chopsticks do manipulate food better. For example, it would take way longer to pick up a grain of rice or pick out an individual pea with a fork. Also, since forks are skewering utensil, it is near impossible to pick up food without damaging it, which makes it mal-suited for eating fragile foods such as sushi. One can try to scoop up said food, but it will still take longer and/or need assistance of the other hand.c3.a. I agree. However, I trained myself enough that when I eat steak or any food that needs an extra cutting tool, I use my left hand(I am right handed) to hold the said cutting tool. It is not something that is impossible. Also, the reason that chopsticks are not used in conjunction with knives is due more to the ages old traditions, not the matters of efficiency. It is in fact possible to hold food down with chopsticks with one's off-hand and cut it using a knife with the dominant hand, however, this is hard to imagine, as people do not use chopsticks this way, or as it is sometimes considered rude or uncivillized to eat like this. When pieces of foods are too big, chopsticks are usually used with a pair of scissors to cut foods. One will hold up the large piece of food with chopsticks while cutting the lower section of food with scissors. Forks cannot really do a good job of hold foods mid-air for cutting, as the heavier pieces of food will often slip off of the fork or one has to maneuver around pieces of food so large to even pick it up in the first place.c3.b. When one skewers pieces of food with a chopstick, it will stay on the chopstick. However, people do not do this as this is not the primary function of chopsticks and is considered a bad manner. This does not mean chopsticks do not have the functionality.c3.c. Again, this is only a common misbelief, because people usually do not associate Western foods or desserts with chopsticks. However, chopsticks, depending on their thickness, can actually be used to a surprising efficiency when one uses them to eat cakes or other dessert foods. Older Korean chopsticks madeof metal will be mal-suited for eating cake, as they are quite thin. However, the newer thicker, hollowed out metal chopsticks and other thicker wooden chopsticks have sufficient surface area which prevents the chopsticks from cutting right through the cake when a pick-up is attempted. In fact, it is actually possible to pickup larger pieces of cake with a pair of chopsticks than with a modestly sized fork (larger portion of chopsticks can be used for picking up food). However, this is not a primary 'grabbing' functionality of chopsticks, but rather a 'scooping.'c3.d. Granted, it is still possible to eat icecream quite efficiently with chopsticks, using the method described above.c4. I could not understand what you meant.c5. Using the previously mentioned scooping method, one can expect to pick up 6 ~ 9 pieces of corn/pea. A frequent user of chopsticks is never forced to pick up a single piece of anything. It would be redudant to again bring up chopsticks can pick up individual pieces of corn or pea without assistance of other hand or tilting of plate.On "other needs" --- While this does not have much to do with the eating functionality of chopsticks, I can name several possible other needs. For one, when you need to reach hard to reach areas but have no access to thongs or tweezers, chopsticks can be used in certain situations, while a fork's wider profile prevents it from being used in situations where chopsticks can be used. One would often use disposable chopsticks to pick up somethings that he or she does not want to touch, while the individual will less frequently think to use forks (changing diapers, picking up dead bugs). One less serious example would be when the characters from the sitcom "Friends" made a long pokey stick out of chopsticks to poke a neighbor across from their window. While chopsticks are eating utensils, they are also, just sticks. So they can be used in any situations that a stick will be useful in. Do not take this argument as seriously as other parts, however.Overall, chopsticks are superior.