Sure it’s possible to misread somebody, and maybe that’s what I’ve done, but I don’t think so. There’s something about preppers that reminds me of the Rapture crowd. They’ll deny that they want to see the world plunged into calamity, but their body language gives them away. It’s clear that on some level they want it. Or like media bias. Liberals will deny it all day long but you know it when you see it, even when it’s not quite self evident. I think a reasonable person would agree that the article blam posted the other day crosses some kind of line into unhealthy preoccupation with the presumed horrors that are in store for non-preppers. And I think you underestimate how difficult it is for people to keep the two propositions that you mention separated. When they intermingle, you get something like blam’s article.
But how many reasonable people DISagreed with your ill-defined "line" on the very thread you refer to?
The historical fact, and modern possibility, of racism does not excuse the existence of an Al Sharpton.
THIS reasonable person sees more contrived defense of your own belligerence, than any quantifiable desire on the part of those you malign.
And I think you underestimate how difficult it is for people to keep the two propositions that you mention separated. When they intermingle, you get something like blam’s article.
Actually, your reaction to the article would seem the more appropriate example of that particular error.