“That’s right — your neighbors are the enemy.”
I live in Wyoming now where my neighbors are great people. But I used to live in California where our neighbors used to shoot at each other. Just because you and I live in nicer places doesn’t mean that everyone else does, too, and it is quite naive and paternalistic of you to chide me for not assuming that everyone else lives in Mayberry.
They don’t have generators in the hood. Just the fact that a generator is involved means you’re talking about a middle or upper middle class neighborhoood, which probably means reasonably decent neighbors.
If I happened to have a generator when the SHTF, I would hope to at least have the decency to let the diabetics on the block store their insulin in a fridge powered by it, or use it to power a radio or recharge peoples’ batteries or whatever. The impulse to hide the generator strikes me as incredibly selfish and vindictive — IOW, pretty typical of the prepper crowd.