[ArrogantBustard]

They won't be shambling, moaning zombies ... dead, half-rotten, dripping blood and slime ...

Some of them will be obvious gang-bangers.

Others will look like poor, starving, helpless refugees.

All will pose a lethal threat to the residents of the farm house.

Are you mentally prepared to shoot a hungry teenage girl with a skinny, undernourished baby in her arms? Are you even mentally prepared to tell her to go the hell away?

Serious questions, BTW ... I don't expect an answer.

[ClearCase_guy]

Good questions, and I won't offer any answers. Each person will have to decide for themselves.

Bottomline though is that if things get really, really bad, a whole lot of people with lots of food in their pantry are going to find themselves psychologically unprepared for what they may have to do.

[Elsie]

I don't expect an answer.

Then I won't waste my time on answering you.

[MrB]

Part of being a responsible prepper is to have SOME food to give away.
It’s always easier to feed someone and send them on their way than to find some place to put the bodies...

Here’s a ziplock with beans & rice, and a pint bottle of water - now get on your way and don’t come back here, you’ll get nothing more.

[jboot]

Are you mentally prepared to shoot a hungry teenage girl with a skinny, undernourished baby in her arms? Are you even mentally prepared to tell her to go the hell away?

Serious questions, BTW

You can't consider yourself to be prepared unless you have answered them, either.