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Originally Posted by DWB
I don't know about you, but I will do the same thing as if I caught a burglar in my house tonight, I'd shoot him.
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I thought he meant what situation would have to occur for looters to attack your house.
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Your government looks out for you to a degree. But unless your country is 100% self sufficient (they are not), then you will live and die by the rise and fall of other nations and their disasters.
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For instance? There was a disaster in your part of the world last year. Apparently the price of hard drives went up. Hardly the apocalypse, was it.
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Disaster happen all over the world and they happen without notice.
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They don't just happen randomly across the world though, some areas are clearly more disaster prone than others.
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What does your country import? How much of everything you buy is imported? Where does your water come from? Where does your power come from? Where does your hospitals get their medicine? Where does your animal feed come from? Where does your country buy oil from? This list is huge.
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So what are you saying? Stockpile every type of everything you might conceivably need that is produced in another country, just in case those other countries might collapse? It's just a false sense of security, based on a false premise, like people who delude themselves that their AR-15 is the only thing stopping the Government's jackboot kicking in their door.
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Right, because it is impossible for distribution chains to break down anywhere else in the world. It only happens where yellow and brown people live.
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No, it just happens significantly more often where yellow and brown happen to people live.
What you're saying might make sense where you are, where natural disasters and poor infrastructure are a way of life. But for people in parts of the world where disasters rarely if ever occur, then it makes no sense at all to live your life as if a crisis is just around the corner.