Making a decision to prep or not is a judgement call. People choose to take different paths in llife. This is just one of many life decisions we all face.
IMHO anyone who would take the time to belittle and harange preppers has a serious character flaw.
Conservatives generally accept the fact that different people may have different beliefs and choose to live in different ways. We belive the world is large enough for that kind of diversity as long as it is not destructive to others.
But rabid Islamists, socialists, leftists, racists and many others cannot stand the thought of living in a world where everyone does not agree with their views and does not live according to their rules. Even though many of these people preach diversity the truth is they cannot abide true diversity of thought any more than do militant Islamists. These kind of people cannot just pass by someone engaged in an activity they do not agree with. Just knowing it exists gives them furor and rage.
It looks like we have some people like that on FR - people who cannot just let us have a constructive exchange of ideas and information related to prepping, but instictively become combative when they are exposed to ideas and choices they do not agree with.
This is so true.
Over the years I have kept a list of FReepers who exhibit these flaws...once they're on the 'list', they'll never get another word from me.
This jerk Yardstick made the list last night.
Wait, you mean like this guy?
"I thought about this and the frustration that other preppers have with this laid back idiotic attitude that there is no need for preparation." [Be Informed's Inferno, sentence 4]
Why can't he just leave the NPs to their non-prepping? Why must he annoy them with a 30 point list of the torments they'll suffer for ignoring his prepper advice?
"* The (NP) will feel the worst guilt imaginable as they hear their family moaning in anguish from lack of anything to eat, knowing they could have done something to prepare. * The (NP) will most likely not see the rebuilding and recovery after A SHTF event. They will, like almost all NP’s, be statistics. Some will die hours or a day before help arrives. * The (NP) from lack of food, drinking bad water, no light at night, the horrid smells, no good self defense, the overall horror, will often be paralyzed with fear and despair, blank stare. * The (NP) is totally helpless after SHTF, will have to rely totally on charity of those prepared to live. They will take all sorts of desperate measures likely to get them shot. They’ll attempt to eat hazardous foods like an animal trapped in a house will do, and get sick and suffer much before dying. The (NP) will likely die (ugly and hard) as they lived, unprepared for anything." [Ibid., torments 27 - 30]
Yeah, that'll teach those NPs!