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Dilbert covered this a few months ago. Dilbert was going over his supply list with Alice, who said, “I don’t see any defensive weaponry here. I’ll come over and take what I want, and please buy more of these granola bars, I like them” or something like that.
This also came up in Lucifer’s hammer, a survival novel involving a comet strike rather than a Zombie Apocalypse. There were people whose survival plan was to simply take stuff from the people who were not able to defend themselves.
And remember the fallout shelter craze of the 50’s, one “problem” was seen that your neighbors, hungry and possibly contaminated with Grade A fallout, would want to get into your shelter and eat your Spam, so you better have a shotgun to keep them out.
I remember a late 50s/early 60s TV movie where the family with the fallout shelter was having to force their neighbors away so they could close the door...
Seems to me the best long-term solution is to possess a key skill that will be considered so valuable that others will leave you along in order to keep you around. Of course this only applied til the point where their empty bellies start to do the talking...
>>This also came up in Lucifer’s hammer,
I’m a huge Pournelle fan (Niven too), and believe me, he “gets” it on 2A. He used to write article for a Survivalist magazine in the 80s (I think I’m right on the timeframe, know I am right on the authorship). His blog is worth reading, I send him money like I send FR money.
He and Niven are working on Lucifer’s Anvil. I’m not sure what their timeframe is, but wouldn’t be surprised if it were late this year.
http://jerrypournelle.com/jerrypournelle.c/chaosmanor/
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Good golly, its been decades since I read Lucifers hammer...didn’t the same guys write....the mote in Gods eye....good sci fi books
