Porcupine_I on 21 April 2015
This is obviously not about the screwdriver but about that he wants something that they can't open to check for contaband and therefore he can't have it. It is not their job to figure out how to look inside without destroying it.
If that screwdriver is only $2 then he should get someone to provide it for them.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
