Well, I happen to know Lurker personally, and have known him here on FR for well over a decade.
Seems to me that you take a lot on yourself, self appointed to call people out, laugh in their face when you do not agree with them, and categorize folks pretty indiscriminantly...but that is just my opinion.
There is nothing wrong with people preparing for the worst...it is a wise thing to do. If you are upset about some of them taking on an attitude about it...that's fine too, but it does not help that cuase when you display pretty much the same type of attitude in reverse.
My guess is that if you knew Lurker personally, you would find him, as I do, to be a very rational, patriotic, and very astute thinker and analyst...and probably agree with him 95% of the time. In addition, he is a U.S. Marine veteran, and is deserving of more respect than you are showing him, whether you knew it or not.
Just thought you should know a little more about who you are talking to. Sometimes it makes a difference when you know more about those you are insulting. In addition, I have always found that it is best to take a care to find out a little something about folks before you turn on the "attack mode," too quickly.
But again, that is just my opinion and advise...you're free to do whatever you want with it.
Probably not bad advice. My apologies to Lurker.
I just find this prepper stuff pretty toxic and I don’t like seeing it around here. Unfortunately I think I’m more right than wrong about the psychology behind it. Their own writings give it away.
And I have to disagree about the wisdom of preparing for the worst — worst as in SHTF. There’s a point where the risk doesn’t warrant the preparation. There’s such a thing as being too prepared, where you’re trading off too much of your life in the here and now — your time, your energy, your money — to manage a given hypothetical. It’s directly analogous to being overinsured on, say, your car.
People are of course free to make their own decisions about this stuff and to be as prepared as they want to be — and it would nice if guys could spare those of us who don’t see SHTF as a relevant factor the judgementalism and the fantasies about our deaths, rapes, etc. Thanks.
...But it really isn’t even that stuff that bugs me, truth be told, since that stuff is just words on a page. What really bugs me is the bugout, let it burn mindset — the idea that the country is lost and can’t be recovered. To me it’s emabarrassingly out of character for Americans to sit back and hope for an epic disaster to come along and hit the ‘reset’ button. We shouldn’t be counting on SHTF to do our work for us.