Eli5: why are the tips of scissors worse at cutting than the base?

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Eli5: why are the tips of scissors worse at cutting than the base?

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The blades aren’t perfectly flat so they diverge more as you get farther from the hinge. Unless they’re like, really nice expensive scissors.

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