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being able to feed your family and take care of yourself when the lights go out is SELFISH??
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There are FReepers that believe the same thing. They pop-up on threads from time to time.
If you look through the Prepper post or asking any of the 450 plus members of the Prepper Ping list and they will tell you that you will find you will find examples of these angry anti-prepper types even here on FR.
I have a number of times posted about three types of people that I like to warn about, the first two are the “I’ve got lots of guns and plenty of ammo and I’ll just take what I need.” and the “I don’t prep because I don’t believe anything is going to happen, but if it does preppers should share with me”, which is more or less the type covered in this article.
Call many of these people on their post and many will backdown or just not respond in their embarrassment, but many will reply back in righteous anger the same anger that you see in this article ‘grasshoppers’who are shocked and infuriated by ‘ants’ who won’t readily share with all.. Even though many of us do share, we just we don’t to the point of endangering our own families or helping those who won’t do for themselves.
Now as I said some the “I’ll take what I want crowd” when confronted will often back off saying things like “I was just joking”, but I don’t believe it. When I read their post I can’t help but think of this quote from one of my favorite westerns ’Open Range’: “Most times a man will tell you his bad intentions if you listen, let yourself hear.” I’ve ‘heard’ their intentions and they aren’t good.
The third type that I warn about are those who wish to bring God’s Armageddon into the discussion as if they know that it will be God’s will should some catastrophe befall us. They claim this despite the fact that the history of man is full of direr times which were caused by nature or man himself. History has shown us all too well that men do not need God to help them muck things up to a point were their fellows cry out for God to end it all and relieve them of their misery. Some of these I like to ask: “Do you wear a seatbelt when you drive or ride in a car? Do you have car insurance?” And if they reply yes then I tell them their faith must not be as strong as they claim.
The real problem with the ‘its God’s will’ crowd is that many of them will want to see you punished as they will see your prepping as you trying to dodging God’s punishment. This group along with the “I don’t prep, but you should share” group will be among the first to report you and your ‘hoarding’ to the powers that be in their efforts to make sure you too suffer just as they do. The first group because as I said they see you as trying to escape the rightful wrath of God (as if they know the Lord’s mind) and the second because you proved them wrong.
You can be fairly certain that all three groups will hate you as they will be quick to blame you for the ‘troubles’ because in their twisted way of thinking your prepping brought the ‘troubles’ and therefore you need to be punished for your transgressions.
Comrade! If you have a 5 KW generator, and live in a town of 10,000, you are each entitled to 1/2 watt of power apiece; to not share equally is selfish!
It is also selfish to expect the other 9,999 to contribute 1/10000 of the initial cost, fuel, maintenance, and upkeep for the generator.
To prevent selfish attitudes from destroying our community, I am confiscating the generator & fuel; and will use them for the good of all by keeping the Commissariat lighted and heated.