Originally Posted by CDSmith

Well I watched the last of the episodes I have of Doomsday Preppers today and I must say it's a pretty good series. One thing I do find though as a common element among these types, especially the more extreme preppers, is that when they recieve the critique on their preps from a team of experts on prepping, most of them disagree and argue instead of listening and learning.

Not all of them, but I'd say a good 60% of them.

These are types of people I can't stand to be around during even the best of times, I shudder to imagine having to spend the rest of my life after a holocast cooped up with any of them. Stubborn opinionated know it all's who won't take advice or constructive criticism are often also control freaks, yet another human trait I have little use for.

Openmindedness and a willingness to learn, accept new ideas, and share their own knowlege in a non-condescending way, and intelligently converse about the best ways of doing things etc are the type of traits the people I'd want to spend time with would possess. Too bad those types are so rare these days.