Answer:
An utensil used for bread. Also a paper cutter. Used by a thug to take a life, Or wielded by the tamest wife, When used to spread the butter.
What has four fingers and a thumb but is not alive?
Itβs so fragile even just saying its name can break it. What is it?
It is something you make after you've weighed your options.
What can touch someone once and last them a lifetime?
Forward Iβm heavy, but backwards Iβm not.